Technology
May 11, 2026
Courts ordered to police AI without a budget
California courts are confronting a surge of AI-generated filings containing hallucinated citations, forcing judges and arbitrators to verify authority more aggressively under emerging rules that promote accuracy but risk straining already limited judicial resources.
William Slomanson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Email: bills@tjsl.edu
The nation's courts are seemingly drowning in a deluge of filings prepared with AI tools. They enhance efficiency but also feature a new hazard--synthetic authority presented by generative AI [GAI] masquerading as precedent. As stated by a Connecticut federal court: "No uniform standard yet governs this issue." Andre v. Warden, FCI Danbury, 2025 WL 3281732 *6 (D.C. Conn., 2025). California litigants are already subject to citation accuracy requirements. See
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