Lawyers behind Mike Lindell court filing 'riddled with errors' admit they wrote it with AI

A Colorado judge ruled Monday that two attorneys for embattled MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell — who admitted their court filing was generated by artificial intelligence — must pay substantial fines after submitting the entirely AI‑crafted document.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that the filing was “riddled with errors,” including fabricated case citations and misquotations, according to U.S. District Judge Nina Y. Wang.

Attorneys Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster were each fined $3,000 by Wang after submitting a court brief in a defamation case that was created with AI and then filed without proper fact-checking.

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“Notwithstanding any suggestion to the contrary, this Court derives no joy from sanctioning attorneys who appear before it,” Wang said in her ruling.

She said the sanction against Kachourouff and Demaster was “the least severe sanction adequate to deter and punish defense counsel in this instance.”

Lindell, a loyalist of President Donald Trump, was found liable in the case last month and ordered to pay $2.3 million. The case centered on false claims that former Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer had rigged Dominion machines during the 2020 election.

MyPillow’s CEO was among several conservative commentators sued by Coomer for repeating the allegation that Coomer had tampered with Dominion voting machines to manipulate the 2020 election in former President Joe Biden’s favor by altering ballots cast by Trump's supporters.

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The judge found that the inconsistent explanations from Lindell's attorneys — blaming the early draft and shifting responsibility — combined with a lack of supporting evidence, suggested the filing was more than an innocent mistake.

At a pretrial hearing, Kachouroff initially claimed the filing was an early draft accidentally submitted. When pressed by the judge, he admitted he had drafted the brief, then “ran it through AI” without checking the output.