The Fifth Circuit has repeatedly warned lawyers about inaccurate citations and unverified AI-generated legal work.
There’s just one awkward problem.
The court’s own citation-verification notice cites the wrong federal rule.
Instead of pointing lawyers to the attorney-discipline provision in Rule 46, the notice cites Rule 6:
A provision dealing with bankruptcy appeals.
And because the source was the court itself, the incorrect citation was later repeated elsewhere.
There’s a pretty useful lesson buried in the irony:
Authority deserves verification too.
-The Legal Brief