WILLIAMSPORT — A Jenkintown attorney has been fined $1,500 and suspended from practice in the U.S. Middle District for six months for an “egregious” violation of the federal rules of civil procedure.
Judge Matthew W. Brann on Thursday imposed the sanctions on Nicholas W. Mattiacci Sr. who accepted full responsibility for his conduct that he attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
The AI resulted in the use of fictitious citations in a post-trial brief and the inclusion of irrelevant cases and quotations that do not appear in cases cited…