When AI hallucinates and lawyers pay: The $86K legal wake-up call

The era in which AI-hallucinated case citations could be dismissed as a novelty is clearly over.    In August 2025, the Southern District of Florida imposed nearly $86K in sanctions against plaintiffs’ counsel in the case, ByoPlanet International, LLC v. Johansson and Gilstrap. It is now the largest sanction to date for filing hallucinated AI-generated […]