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Miller v. Regions Bank

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama · Federal district courts · AL · 2026-05-21 · No. 2:24-cv-1324 · order

Fabricated or misquoted citations Competence, fees and billingChatGPT

On 2026-05-21, in Jackie L. Miller v. Regions Bank, the Northern District of Alabama disqualified counsel from the case and from appearing before the judge for six months and referred the order to bar authorities. Counsel submitted a filing using quotations that did not appear in the cited source.

Disposition: The court publicly reprimanded counsel, disqualified him from the case, suspended him from practice in the Northern District of Alabama for six months, and directed notice to disciplinary authorities.
Recorded conduct: Attorney H. Gregory Harp filed four false quotations and then deleted his ChatGPT account after being ordered to produce his ChatGPT history. The court inferred ChatGPT generated the false quotations and imposed suspension, disqualification, reprimand, and notice to disciplinary authorities. — outcome: suspension; actor: lawyer
Canonical record: Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

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Attorney H. Gregory Harp ... following Attorney Harp’s misuse of generative artificial intelligence to make false statements to the court. ... the court draws an adverse inference ... that ChatGPT generated the four false quotations

Authorities cited in the passage: SeeHolly v. Clairson Indus · See EEOC v. St. Joseph’s Hosp · Breen v. Dep’t of Transp., 282 F

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