Lawmakers on the Contract Review Committee delayed a $200,000 Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) legal contract for William Lunsford of Butler Snow on Thursday.

The delay comes weeks after three attorneys from Butler Snow, including Lunsford, were sanctioned by a federal judge for a single legal filing in litigation against ADOC that was generated by artificial intelligence and included fabricated citations. The other attorneys sanctioned were Matthew Reeves and William Cranford.

Any lawmaker on the Contract Review Committee can request that any contract that comes before the committee be delayed for up to 45 days, but they can't stop a contract from being approved.

The $200,000 contract is related to the case James David Johnson v. Contenna Moore, et al. in the Circuit Cour

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