Judge’s AI ‘clerical errors’ caused a legal reroute
A federal judge’s AI-assisted ruling was so flawed, the court had to start over.
The story
A federal judge was removed from an anti-DEI case after an appeals court criticized his rulings for factual errors, AI-generated citations, and flawed legal reasoning.
Source: www.foxnews.com
Our reading
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order so full of errors that the appeals court had to reassign the case to someone else. The order had 11 fake plaintiffs, two wrong defendants, and a citation to a case that didn’t exist—probably because he used AI to draft it. The appeals court called it a ‘botch job’ and said the judge was ‘careless’ with the law. The judge blamed it on a law clerk and called the errors ‘clerical.’ The appeals court wasn’t impressed. They said if the errors were so minor, why did they make the whole ruling invalid? It’s like if you wrote a grocery list with the wrong numbers, then said it was just a typo, and the store said, ‘Okay, we’ll just throw out the whole order.’
