Two attorneys for Mike Lindell have been fined for filing a problematic court document generated by AI on behalf of the embattled MyPillow CEO.
Lawyers Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster were each ordered to pay $3,000 for violating court rules after filing a motion containing nearly 30 defective citations, according to court records posted online by the Colorado Sun.
Their error-filled filing included misquotes of past cases, misrepresentations of case law, “discussions of legal principles that simply do not appear” within the cited cases and “most egregiously, citation of cases that do not exist,” wrote Colorado District Judge Nina Y. Wang in her ruling.
The motion was part of a lawsuit against Lindell, which found he was liable for defaming a former security and product strategy director for Dominion Voting Systems and owed the plaintiff $2.3 million. The 64-year-old MAGA loyalist has consistently promoted unsubstantiated claims about the 2020 presidential election being rigged against President Trump.
Kachouroff told the court that he drafted his initial filing then ran it through an AI program, but didn’t check the citations that appeared in the final document submitted to the court, according to Wang’s ruling. DeMaster told the court she too reviewed the document in question.
Wang cited “gross carelessness by counsel” for her decision to penalize Lindell’s legal team.
Previous lawyers representing Lindell dropped the right-wing salesman in October 2023, claiming he owed them “millions of dollars” for their work in his defense. Both Dominion Voting Systems and the Smartmatic election technology company have filed lawsuits against Lindell over false and repeated claims he’s made about their involvement in President Trump’s defeat.
