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Steven Schwartz, the lawyer who cited six nonexistent, ChatGPT-fabricated citations as precedents while attempting to argue a federal court case, has officially been punished by the court.

US Ars Technica reports, US District Judge Kevin Castel has ordered Schwartz and his partner Peter LoDuca to pay a $5,000 fine. The original lawsuit has also been tossed out in its entirety.

The lawyers are also required to send apology letters via “first class mail” to the six real judges who were named in the fake citations, complete with a transcript of the original court hearing as well as the

The two lawyers who submitted fake legal research generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT just got hit with a $5,000 fine and a scolding by a federal judge. The lawyers submitted a legal brief on an airline injury case in May that turned out to be riddled with citations from nonexistent cases. The attorneys, Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, initially defended their research even after opposing counsel pointed out that it was fake, but eventually apologized to the court.

Schwartz, who created the ChatGPT-generated brief, already had a court hearing on June 8 in which

Mr Trump’s team has also struggled to agree on a legal strategy, with some keen to accuse the Justice Department of prosecutorial misconduct, while others believe they can win the case the traditional way, sources told the Washington Post.

Those to turn down the plumb role reportedly include David O. Markus, who last month defended Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who was acquitted by a federal jury of lying to the FBI.

Lawyer Benedict Kuehne is thought to have approached about the role. He was charged with alleged money laundering and obstruction of justice in 2008. The charges were

By- Prabal Karthikheyan

INTRODUCTION

In India, the test for Corporate Tax Residency was initially based on the first while ‘Control and Management’ test (hereinafter ‘C&M test’), which was based on the ‘Central Control and Management’ in the UK. This test leaves the determination of the company’s residence to the place where the head and brain are located and important decisions are being made. However, the problem of shell companies and tax evasion still seemed to persist owing to companies having certain isolated instances of control being able to evade tax by contending that the control did not rest wholly in

A New Jersey lawyer was arrested this week in connection with a series of decade-old rapes in Boston after forensic genealogy linked him to the crime spree.

Matthew J. Nilo, 35, was arrested at his home in Weehawken around 4:30 pm Tuesday, the Boston Globe reported.

He has been charged with three counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, one count of assault with intent to rape, and one count of indecent assault and battery in connection with the attacks on four women in the Terminal Street area between August 2007 and December 2008, the outlet said.

“This is

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase.

The 11-year sentence represents a comeback for the wide-eyed woman who broke through the “tech bro” culture to become one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated entrepreneurs, only to be exposed as a fraud. Along the way, Holmes became a symbol of the shameless hyperbole that often saturates startup culture.

But questions still linger about her true intentions — so many that even the federal judge

By- Kumar Aditya

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Maharashtra and states like, Delhi and Karnataka jumped on the bandwagon banning the operation of bike taxis in their respective jurisdictions. Karnataka banned the operation of the bike-taxis way back in 2016. Thereafter, many state governments joined the chain in banning the operation in their respective states Maharashtra Government notified the ban on the operation of the bike taxi vide notification, dated 19^th of January, 2023. As per the notification, the government banned non-transport vehicles, including two-wheelers, three-wheelers and four-wheelers, for ride pooling and aggregations. Subsequently, Rapido approached the concerned department to obtain a bike-taxi