Two attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case were fined $3,000 each for submitting an inaccurate, AI-generated court filing that cited fake or improperly formatted legal cases. Judge Nina Wang imposed the sanctions on attorney Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster, and the law firm McSweeny Synkar and Kachouroff PLLC.
The penalties stem from a February brief riddled with roughly 30 defective citations, including references to non-existent cases. Kachouroff admitted to running the draft through generative AI and failing to verify the citations. “I personally did not check it,” he told the court.
Judge Wang declined to penalize Lindell or the defendants, noting the attorneys had not informed their client about their use of AI.
The sanctions follow a jury ruling last month that found Lindell defamed Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer with false claims about election fraud, though the jury cleared Lindell on other counts.
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