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From the transcript of a hearing in Flycatcher Corp. Ltd. v. Affable Avenue LLC:

Unsurprisingly, the judge (Judge Katherine Polk Failla [S.D.N.Y.]) viewed this not as an important correction, but as Mr. Feldman's "attempt[] to minimize his responsibility." For more on what happened in the case, see the post below, Lawyer's Repeated Filings with AI Hallucinations Lead to Default Judgment Against Client.

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution. He is also the co-host of the Free Speech Unmuted podcast.