Description: A Binnall Law Group attorney reportedly used Anthropic's Claude Console to draft a motion to quash a subpoena in litigation over Trump administration layoffs, then filed a version containing "phantom" quotations that did not appear in the cited cases. The attorney apologized to U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, and the firm said it would add safeguards and training after calling the AI-generated errors unacceptable.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Anthropic developed an AI system deployed by Binnall Law Group and Jason Greaves, which harmed Epistemic integrity , Judicial integrity , Joseph Guy , Parties in Trump administration layoffs and Parties in American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. Trump.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Claude Console and Large language models
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1499
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-05-06
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Lindsay R. McKasson, Jason Greaves, Jesse R. Binnall post-incident response
AIID editor's note: This is just an excerpt of the beginning of the full apology filing. Please see the original source for the PDF: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmylgokvr/Binnall%20AI%20apology.pdf.
I, Jason C. Greaves…
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May 18 (Reuters) - A lawyer at Binnall Law Group has apologized to a federal judge in San Francisco for including "phantom" quotations generated by artificial intelligence in a court filing related to the Trump administration's firing of g…
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