{"id":127753,"date":"2025-08-08T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127753\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:02:10","slug":"alabama-prisons-give-200000-contract-to-lawyer-reprimanded-for-using-ai-in-federal-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127753\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama prisons give $200,000 contract to lawyer reprimanded for using AI in federal court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Legislature's contract review committee\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GGDA6AAOMRBC7OF6EEBUKGP7UU.jpg\" \/>Members of the Alabama Legislature&#8217;s contract review committee talk after a meeting on Aug. 7, 2025.Mike Cason\/AL.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EZOE4BFVYZG65BXFQB4AJHQCIM\">The Alabama Department of Corrections is awarding a new contract to one of the lawyers<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2025\/07\/alabama-prison-lawyers-kicked-off-case-for-faking-citations-with-chatgpt-recklessness-in-the-extreme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2025\/07\/alabama-prison-lawyers-kicked-off-case-for-faking-citations-with-chatgpt-recklessness-in-the-extreme.html\"> reprimanded by a federal judge<\/a> for the use of artificial intelligence to produce a document in a federal court case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FT2DAUDETBABXMD5CTELXJOWH4\">The Legislature\u2019s contract review committee on Thursday put a hold on the ADOC\u2019s latest contract with lawyer William Lunsford, who has defended the prison system in court for years and has been paid millions by the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Alabama Legislature&#8217;s contract review committee talk after a meeting on Aug. 7, 2025.Mike Cason\/AL.com The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-127753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114990451478891762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}