Mike Lissner
@michaeljaylissner.com
Director of @free.law. Occasional long distance athlete. Woodworker. Adroitful dodger of questions.
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Here’s the article: www.baltimoresun.com/2025/11/10/h...
Citing ‘hallucinated’ AI cases gets Harford divorce lawyer in trouble with Maryland Appellate Court
The brief contained 11 citation irregularities, including four nonexistent cases, two incorrectly cited cases and five unsupported cases. A law clerk used search engines such as CourtListener, Case…
www.baltimoresun.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Here’s the article: www.baltimoresun.com/2025/11/10/h...
Later next year, we’re planning to create open citations for all legal decisions. Chime in here if you have thoughts about that. This should help. 4/ github.com/freelawproje...
Make a digital citation format for Free Law Project and assign it to all case law · freelawproject foresight · Discussion #97
This idea comes up over and over again and I've resisted for years because who wants another digital citation? My resistance ends now, and I am ready to cast my lot with the advocates of these cita...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Later next year, we’re planning to create open citations for all legal decisions. Chime in here if you have thoughts about that. This should help. 4/ github.com/freelawproje...
The best way to fix this is for courts to create citations for their decisions themselves. Such citations are called “neutral citations” and about 20 states do it so far. (Please encourage your state to do so too.) 3/ free.law/advocacy/neu...
The Case for Neutral Citations in the Law
Courts have issued neutral citations in the United States for over 30 years. Learn why they are important, and how you can help adopt them at your court.
free.law
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The best way to fix this is for courts to create citations for their decisions themselves. Such citations are called “neutral citations” and about 20 states do it so far. (Please encourage your state to do so too.) 3/ free.law/advocacy/neu...
This means that orgs like mine can’t make tools to catch and prevent hallucinated citations, though we do our best: 2/ www.courtlistener.com/help/api/res...
Citation Lookup and Verification API – CourtListener.com
Trained on over 50 million citations going back centuries, our citation lookup API can translate a citation you have to a link on our site, or it can serve as a guardrail to help identify and prevent ...
www.courtlistener.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This means that orgs like mine can’t make tools to catch and prevent hallucinated citations, though we do our best: 2/ www.courtlistener.com/help/api/res...
Reposted by Mike Lissner
Such an effort, if detailed in a letter and signed by enough senators and shared privately with the leader, could be used to push a leader out while allowing them to save face and the humiliation of a public vote. (I don't know anyone who would go quietly.)
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Such an effort, if detailed in a letter and signed by enough senators and shared privately with the leader, could be used to push a leader out while allowing them to save face and the humiliation of a public vote. (I don't know anyone who would go quietly.)
I had cartoon animal porn. Never did figure out why, but it was a good puzzle! They should probably fix this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I had cartoon animal porn. Never did figure out why, but it was a good puzzle! They should probably fix this.
I don’t know that we can figure out clerk names, but we could theoretically send a letter to each judge with their score or something.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I don’t know that we can figure out clerk names, but we could theoretically send a letter to each judge with their score or something.
Good question. My theory would be it's clerk-related. My understanding is there's a box they're supposed to check, and some...don't? Don't know if we could get this from the data. Hm.
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Good question. My theory would be it's clerk-related. My understanding is there's a box they're supposed to check, and some...don't? Don't know if we could get this from the data. Hm.
It might go poorly, yeah, but @deepakguptalaw.bsky.social, what do you say? Want to do another round? Class action?
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It might go poorly, yeah, but @deepakguptalaw.bsky.social, what do you say? Want to do another round? Class action?
For example, Green Earth Energy v. KeyCorp is on page 1 of volume 727 of the Federal Supplement (727 F.Supp.3d 1). it's a published decision! Guess what? It's a $1.20 in PACER.
Ideas:
- Which judge/court is the worst?
- Blog about it?
- Buy them all, then demand a refund?
- Tell the news?
Ideas:
- Which judge/court is the worst?
- Blog about it?
- Buy them all, then demand a refund?
- Tell the news?
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
For example, Green Earth Energy v. KeyCorp is on page 1 of volume 727 of the Federal Supplement (727 F.Supp.3d 1). it's a published decision! Guess what? It's a $1.20 in PACER.
Ideas:
- Which judge/court is the worst?
- Blog about it?
- Buy them all, then demand a refund?
- Tell the news?
Ideas:
- Which judge/court is the worst?
- Blog about it?
- Buy them all, then demand a refund?
- Tell the news?
In the past when I've asked for my money back on such things, I've gone in circles:
Me: "This should be free. It's a legal decision. It says so in the PDF."
The court: "If it were a legal decision, it'd be free."
Me: "But words have meaning!"
The court: "No."
Me: "This should be free. It's a legal decision. It says so in the PDF."
The court: "If it were a legal decision, it'd be free."
Me: "But words have meaning!"
The court: "No."
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In the past when I've asked for my money back on such things, I've gone in circles:
Me: "This should be free. It's a legal decision. It says so in the PDF."
The court: "If it were a legal decision, it'd be free."
Me: "But words have meaning!"
The court: "No."
Me: "This should be free. It's a legal decision. It says so in the PDF."
The court: "If it were a legal decision, it'd be free."
Me: "But words have meaning!"
The court: "No."
Yes, I personally want to read this, so I’m annoyed, but tell me again what percentage of Americans subscribe to the Atlantic? (It probably rounds to zero percent.)
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Yes, I personally want to read this, so I’m annoyed, but tell me again what percentage of Americans subscribe to the Atlantic? (It probably rounds to zero percent.)
Reposted by Mike Lissner
Absolutely correct! And correct me if I’m wrong but I remember people like Churchill at one point advocated summarily shooting all nazi officers above the rank of colonel, which makes the Nuremberg trials seem like a mass amnesty project
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Absolutely correct! And correct me if I’m wrong but I remember people like Churchill at one point advocated summarily shooting all nazi officers above the rank of colonel, which makes the Nuremberg trials seem like a mass amnesty project