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Technology

Nov. 7, 2025

Why AI hallucinations prove the legal system works

AI hallucinations reveal the resilience and limits of our adversarial process. Institutional skepticism eventually catches fake cases, but only when lawyers do their professional duties.

James Mixon

Managing Attorney
California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District

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Why AI hallucinations prove the legal system works
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Two years after Mata v. Avianca, lawyers are still citing fabricated cases. Georgia attorney Diana Lynch: 13 fake cases across two briefs. California attorney Amir Mostafavi: 21 fabricated quotes. Federal judges in New Jersey and Mississippi: orders containing AI-generated errors.

Every fabrication was eventually caught. But not before clients paid for appeals based on fiction, judges verified nonexistent authority, and courts ...

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