The judge scolded the lawyers for doubling down on their fake citations.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    which I falsely assumed was, like, a super search engine

    A “super search engine” is still a search engine, if you’re incapable of validating the results, or if you don’t know you should, you shouldn’t be a lawyer at all.

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      I mean, dude apparently didn’t even know how to read a case reference and guessed Fd3 stood for Federal District 3 (spoiler: it’s Federal reporter Edition 3). Not that I would have guessed any different, but I’m not and never was in any kind of law education, not to mention being a lawyer, who supposedly deal with case references all the time.