United States v. Glennie Antonio McGee
United States v. Glennie Antonio McGee is one matter in the Veritas record of US court proceedings involving AI-generated citations that could not be verified against the reporters named. The summary below is drawn from the underlying court document, linked at the foot of this page.
- Court
- S.D. Alabama
- Date
- October 10, 2025
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Ghostwriter Legal
- Outcome
- Monetary penalty: $5,000 to the CJA fund; public reprimand; CJA-panel and state-bar referral
- Penalty
- $5,000 in monetary penalties.
What the record shows
The court found that Attorney James A. Johnson used a Microsoft Word AI plug-in, Ghostwriter Legal, to draft a motion to continue and submitted it with nonexistent and incorrect citations he did not verify; the government noted Ghostwriter Legal uses ChatGPT as its default engine. Finding the conduct tantamount to bad faith, the court imposed a $5,000 fine payable to the CJA fund, publicly reprimanded Johnson with a limited publication requirement, referred him to the district's advisory panel for possible CJA-panel removal, and referred the matter to the Alabama State Bar.
This entry reflects the court document as filed. The citations at issue could not be located in the reporters named at the time of the order. The reading here is descriptive of the public record and is not legal advice.
Source documents
The test this filing did not run
Every matter in this record shares one mechanism: a citation that did not resolve to an opinion in the reporter named, in a brief that was filed before any verification step ran. Veritas runs that step. The Filing Risk Scanner extracts each citation, resolves it against reporter and public-record sources, and returns a verdict on each one — located, partial, or not located in reporter — before the brief is signed.
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