The New Mexico Supreme Court is the state's highest court; five justices are elected statewide to form the bench. In recent news, a lawyer was fined and held in contempt for using AI-generated brief without verification, and a federal-bureaucratic clash over Epstein files underscores tensions between state judiciary and federal access rules.
A New Mexico Supreme Court has fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 for submitting an AI-assisted brief that included fabricated witnesses and false testimony. Aarons says he used ChatGPT to summarize the trial but did not understand AI hallucinations, and the court warns of growing discipline for AI misuse in legal filings.