Booker v. The Kroger Co.

What the court wrote

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This matter is before the Court on its previous Order to Show Cause [ECF 53] directed to counsel for Plaintiff to explain why he should not be sanctioned for using fake or hallucinated case authorities, as well as misrepresenting the content of real case authorities, in his filings with the Court. Because Plaintiff’s counsel, as an officer of the Court, deliberately lied to this Court about his artificial intelligence (AI) use and because Plaintiff’s counsel’s response to the Order to Show Cause [ECF 58] lacks credibility, is evasive, and seeks to divert accountability from his own misconduct, sanctions are warranted. ... The Court’s Order to Show Cause highlighted four purported cases cited by Plaintiff’s counsel that represented the most egregious examples of fake, false, and misleading case authorities. Counsel for Plaintiff is ordered to pay a fine of $1,000 for each of these fake, false, and misleading case authorities. In addition, this fine will be doubled as a result of Plaintiff’s counsel’s lies to this Court. Accordingly, Plaintiff’s counsel’s total fine for his repeated Rule 11 violations is $8,000, payable to the registry of the Court.

Authorities cited in the passage: Fed. R. Civ. P. 11