The petition arrives days after the appellate order and signals Scientology's intent to establish precedent on how courts should penalize AI-induced legal errors. The specific details of Scientology's arguments in the petition are not yet public. It remains unclear whether the Supreme Court will grant review or what standard it might adopt for sanctioning similar failures.
California law requires attorneys to personally verify all legal citations, a standard the state bar has enforced through recent fines against other practitioners. The Boies Schiller incident has already influenced practice: at least one major litigation team has banned generative AI tools from its workflow in response. Attorneys should monitor this petition closely. A Supreme Court decision could either tighten sanctions for AI citation errors or establish a higher threshold for penalties, materially affecting how firms deploy these tools and what verification protocols courts will demand going forward.