Generative AI Wrote the Brief, and the Lawyers Who Signed It Paid the Price

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If your business relies on generative AI to produce work that gets filed, sent, or signed under your name, a California appellate court just answered the question that matters: when the output is wrong, who pays? Not the software. Not the contractor who ran it. You. That’s the lesson of Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC (Cal. Ct. App., 1st Dist., …

AI Hallucinations in California Courts:

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The Rules Now Apply to Everyone Horst Legal Counsel | March 2026 If you have been following California’s growing body of appellate authority on AI-generated legal citations, you have watched the courts build a wall, one published opinion at a time. First came the warnings to attorneys. Then came the sanctions. Then, in Torres Campos v. Munoz, the consequences reached …