Last week, Above the Law published an interesting story about a case in which the lawyers for the Department of Health and Human Services were called out for filing a brief with fake cites. The decision stated that "in addition to the errors discussed above, nine more citations that the Agency provides are entirely fictitious, eleven do not support the propositions for which they are cited, and ten have partially incorrect citations and do not support the propositions for which they are cited. Overall, twenty-two of the exceptions brief’s twenty-nine footnotes — and thirty-five of the forty-two legal or record citations — are fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant." Are the lawyers incompetent, sloppy or just reliant on "super intelligence"?
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