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Butler Snow AI failures
Every documented AI failure involving Butler Snow on the AI Failure Index, classified by the mechanism that broke.
- Failures
- 2
- Highest severity
- High
- Span
- 2025
- Failure modes
- 1
A federal judge disqualified attorneys at a major firm over AI-hallucinated citations
In Johnson v. Dunn, a federal judge in Alabama found a large law firm had filed a motion containing hallucinated AI citations and concluded that monetary sanctions were no longer an effective deterrent. The court disqualified the responsible attorneys from the case and referred them to bar regulators.
- Confidence
- High (multi-source, primary)
Butler Snow LLP AI hallucination leads to disqualification in Johnson v. Dunn (N.D. Alabama)
Public reporting confirms that Butler Snow LLP faced sanctions for AI-generated hallucinated citations in Johnson v. Dunn, with the court disqualifying the firm’s attorneys and referring the matter for disciplinary action; multiple sources corroborate the event and its legal implications.
- Confidence
- High (multi-source, primary)
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