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Nimat Shahid v. Sufyan Esaam (Ga. Ct. App. 2025)

fine

The Georgia Court of Appeals penalized attorney Diana Lynch whose AI-hallucinated citations infected both a proposed trial-court order (adopted below) and her appellate brief — notable because fabricated cases were inserted into an actual court order. The court imposed a $2,500 frivolous-motion penalty, the statutory maximum.

Date of decision/order

2025-06-30

Court

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Jurisdiction

US-STATE

AI tool

generative AI

Conduct

The husband's attorney, Diana Lynch, drafted a proposed trial-court order containing two fictitious AI-generated cases that the trial court adopted, then on appeal filed a brief citing roughly eleven more hallucinated or inapposite cases.

Consequence

USD 2,500