{"id":18995,"date":"2025-06-01T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/us-lawyer-sanctioned-after-caught-using-chatgpt-for-court-brief\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:38:29","slug":"us-lawyer-sanctioned-after-caught-using-chatgpt-for-court-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/us-lawyer-sanctioned-after-caught-using-chatgpt-for-court-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawyer sanctioned after caught using ChatGPT for court brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bednar apologized after Utah appeals court discovered false citations, including one nonexistent case<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/utah\">Utah<\/a> court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a> for a filing he made in which he referenced a nonexistent court case.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Utah court of appeals made the decision to sanction Richard Bednar over claims that he filed a brief which included false citations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/31\/utah-lawyer-chatgpt-ai-court-brief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c604918f8fe3f3dd78fd0e6ff78635e8975a30ca\/174_1_4709_3769\/master\/4709.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a11ba856259d872e4109b26cf5ba1784\" title=\"US lawyer sanctioned after caught using ChatGPT for court brief\" \/>Richard Bednar apologized after Utah appeals court discovered false citations, including one nonexistent case<br \/>\nThe Utah court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used ChatGPT for a filing he made in which he referenced a nonexistent court case.<br \/>\nEarlier this week, the Utah court of appeals made the decision to sanction Richard Bednar over claims that he filed a brief which included false citations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bednar apologized after Utah appeals court discovered false citations, including one nonexistent case The Utah court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used ChatGPT for a filing he made in which he referenced a nonexistent court case. Earlier this week, the Utah court of appeals made the decision &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/us-lawyer-sanctioned-after-caught-using-chatgpt-for-court-brief\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US lawyer sanctioned after caught using ChatGPT for court brief<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}