It Was Only a Matter of Time: *Both* Sides’ Lawyers Sanctioned for Using AI

On several occasions here we’ve discussed the remarkably stupid tradition of dueling, I guess most recently in this 2024 item about a probably-not-serious proposal to embed that practice in the rules of the Missouri Senate. Lawyers were never immune to this stupidity, which is why, for example, new members of the Kentucky Bar were required to swear an oath that they had never “fought a duel with deadly weapons” or aided or assisted in such a thing. And, in fact, they still are. Today I was interested in finding out whether there had ever been a duel in which both idiots died. I thought I had found three examples, but it turned out those were all bullshit. That’s what I get for using AI to run the search. It seems like only yesterday, but in fact was four days ago, that I mentioned the latest fiasco in which lawyers got sanctioned because they had relied on generative AI without checking its output. See “Two More Lawyers Pay for Relying on Artificial ‘Intelligence’” (June 5, 2026).…