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In Arkansas’s first-ever published ruling on AI-hallucinated citations, the Court of Appeals dismissed a pro se appellant’s entire appeal because his brief cited multiple cases that simply do not exist in any legal database. The court issued a comprehensive warning about AI use in appellate practice
In a follow-up sanctions order in an employment discrimination case, the court sanctioned the senior named partner of a law firm after the firm’s associate used AI to draft a brief containing a fabricated citation. The supervising attorney argued he did not draft the brief and was unaware — the cour
In a Florida family law certiorari petition filed by a pro se litigant, the appellate court found that only 4 of 13 cited cases both existed and stood for the propositions asserted. Five cases were entirely fabricated; four real cases were cited for propositions they do not support. The court issued
In a landmark AI-sanctions ruling, an Alabama federal court imposed $55,597 in attorneys’ fees, publicly reprimanded attorney Franklin Eaton, and recommended the Alabama State Bar find him incompetent to practice law — all for a pattern of fabricated citations and misstatements that pervaded his ent
An applicant before Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal cited a case that doesn’t exist in a procedural motion, with the adjudicator concluding this represented use of AI to generate fake case law. The tribunal dismissed the procedural request and ordered the applicant to provide digital copies of all f
Joshua Harris filed a Fair Credit Reporting Act lawsuit and proceeded to submit fabricated AI-generated citations in four separate filings across three show cause hearings. After being warned repeatedly and given multiple opportunities to comply, he admitted at a hearing that dismissal was an approp
Gregory Hardy filed the same AI-hallucinated motion to consolidate in Hardy v. Jones as he had in his other cases, repeating fake quotations from Berndt v. Tennessee and United States v. Frazier. The court struck the motion and issued a final warning: the next instance of fabricated citations or imp
Pro se litigant Gregory Hardy filed a motion to consolidate cases one month after being warned about AI-hallucinated citations — and the new motion contained fresh fake quotations from real federal cases. The court struck the motion, noting that the Sixth Circuit had just confirmed even a single fak
In a child custody appeal, a pro se father cited four “findings” of the trial court that simply did not appear in the actual court order. The Arizona Court of Appeals called these “hallucinated findings” — the first time an appellate court applied the term “hallucinated” directly to a litigant’s mis
A tenant’s appeal to the UK Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) failed partly because he insisted — wrongly — that a Supreme Court case authorised his application for a rent repayment order. The Tribunal noted the transcript contained references to AI and suspected he was misled by an AI hallucination ab