Schwartz is now facing a sanctions hearing on June 8. Schwartz, in an affidavit, said that he had never used ChatGPT as a legal research source prior to this case and, therefore, “was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false.” He accepted responsibility for not confirming the chatbot’s sources. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, all of which did not appear to exist to either the judge or defense, the filing said. “The court is presented with an unprecedented circumstance,” Castel wrote in a May 4 order.Īmong the purported cases: Varghese v. Steven Schwartz, an attorney with Levidow, Levidow & Oberman and licensed in New York for over three decades, handled Mata’s representation.īut at least six of the submitted cases by Schwartz as research for a brief “appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,” said Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York in an order.
Roberto Mata sued Avianca airlines for injuries he says he sustained from a serving cart while on the airline in 2019, claiming negligence by an employee.
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