{"id":165526,"date":"2026-10-22T15:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=165526"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:18:40","slug":"a-botch-job-5th-circuit-reassigns-case-after-judge-misused-ai-to-draft-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/22\/a-botch-job-5th-circuit-reassigns-case-after-judge-misused-ai-to-draft-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Botch Job’: 5th Circuit Reassigns Case After Judge Misused AI to Draft Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable\u2014though obviously unjust\u2014temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail,” Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the appellate court.<\/p>\n

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“Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable\u2014though obviously unjust\u2014temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail,” Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the appellate court.<\/p>\n

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“Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable\u2014though obviously unjust\u2014temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail,” Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165536,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165526\/revisions\/165536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}