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A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling blocking Mississippi’s ban on public funding for DEI programmes in schools and universities. Fox News reports that the district judge said a law clerk used AI to help draft the order, which included false quotations and references to people and programmes absent from the case record.
Why it mattersThe appeals court vacated the order, temporarily allowing the law to be enforced, and sent the case to a new judge. AI-assisted legal drafting has moved beyond a question of tidy footnotes: here, errors in a court order had immediate consequences for a live case. The original challenge to the law is not resolved by this ruling.
Discuss: What checks should courts require when AI is used to draft legal documents?
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