Legislators decided to delay an expensive contract with a law firm this week after three attorneys were caught using ChatGPT to create court filings containing fake case law. The $200,000 Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) legal contract for William Lunsford of Butler Snow was put on hold by the Contract Review Committee, Thursday.

“This is a new $200,000 contract,” State Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa) said. “At some point, as an Alabama taxpayer, you see cases that have been pending for a long time… and then also find out the representation we’ve been provided is someone who’s using AI to file motions in front of the court. You start to get to the point where maybe we need to find another law firm.”

U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco of the Northern District of Alabama issued an

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