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Use, non-use, and abuse of AI tools in judicial filing, review, and litigation processes.
Clio, last valued at $5 billion, has bought Learned Hand, a startup that builds AI tools for judges, on undisclosed terms. Jack Newton is betting that litigants without lawyers will push courts toward AI, and that the bench can lead Clio to Big Law.
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A pro se plaintiff hid instructions for an AI reviewer in white-on-white type. What caught him was odd whitespace on the page, not any model's refusal to comply.
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Judge Walter Spader Jr. found that no Connecticut court uses AI on filings, then sanctioned the litigant anyway. A clerk caught the size-3 white text by its spacing, not by scanning.
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Hidden white-on-white instructions to any reviewing AI cost a self-represented plaintiff his electronic filing rights. The court that caught him does not even use AI.
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A Connecticut judge found white-on-white instructions to AI models in a pro se motion, then found more in the reply. Any team summarizing text it did not author is handling adversarial input now.
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Hidden white-on-white instructions in a Connecticut filing failed because the court does not use AI. Every other document intake pipeline should read that as a warning, not an all-clear.
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