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Officers of the court: First line of defence in catching fake cases, fabricated quotations

By Stephen A. Thiele ( April 17, 2026, 2:51 PM EDT) -- Almost three years ago, the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108263 made sensational worldwide headlines as one of the first cases to penalize lawyers for the use of fake cases generated by ChatGPT in their legal briefs....