NYCHA has guaranteed<\/a> all existing tenants new apartments, and only 6% of the site\u2019s 2,056 units will have to be temporarily relocated during the construction.<\/p>\n\u201cI think the judge was, you know, pretty harsh,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cI mean, these are pro se litigants. These are people who are not sophisticated lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tenants initially filed their lawsuit without lawyers because of a lack of funding but brought on litigators John Low-Beer and Thomas Hillgardner to speak on their behalf at Wednesday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n
NYCHA did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment. Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, he was angry,\u201d Low-Beer said of the judge.<\/p>\n
The lawyer joined the case after the suit had already been filed, noting that petitioner and tenant Louis Flores did an impressive job with the use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, Louis Flores did an amazing job, considering he\u2019s not a lawyer,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The Chelsea plaintiffs\u2019 petition was allegedly written with the AI machine \u201cGrok\u201d and referenced at least two legal cases that do not exist. REUTERS<\/p>\n
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Halasa noted that while the case was thrown out because of the AI snafu, a similar lawsuit filed by a separate tenant rights group is still ongoing.<\/p>\n
Both petitions argue that the city did not follow its Universal Land Use Review process, which requires approval from the project\u2019s community board, borough president, the city Planning Commission, City Council and the mayor.<\/p>\n
NYCHA did not respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan judge slammed NYCHA tenants for presenting his court with a \u201cgarbage\u201d AI-crafted lawsuit before dismissing their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66,2803,2850,75,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,305,307,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-9792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-court","10":"tag-lawsuits","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-nycha","20":"tag-public-housing","21":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}