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Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed a contract enforcement order against a pro se defendant and publicly warned him that future unverified AI use could trigger sanctions — marking its disapproval with a ChatGPT-generated limerick about vanishing case citations.
A Michigan Court of Appeals zoning opinion was flagged by Westlaw for containing citation references that are incorrect or do not exist — with the AI hallucinations originating in the court’s own published opinion, not a party’s brief. A rare and alarming escalation of the AI hallucination problem.
A Korean contractor’s ASBCA surreply was struck after 27 problematic citations were found, including 16 to non-existent cases — but the Board declined to dismiss the entire $100M+ contract appeal as too severe. The Board found a ‘lack of candour’ about how the AI-generated errors arose, denying the
The US Seventh Circuit admonished a petitioner’s attorney for including AI-generated non-existent citations and a false quotation in an immigration appeal brief — but imposed no financial penalty, signalling that a formal admonishment from a circuit court carries its own significant weight.
A North Carolina federal court dismissed a pro se plaintiff’s FCRA case and denied leave to amend after her AI-generated briefs cited fictitious provisions of the North Carolina Identity Theft Protection Act and contained fabricated case citations — even after the court had already warned her it wou
An Oklahoma federal court sanctioned attorney Rachel Bussett after she filed a response brief containing non-existent and misleading case citations she attributed to a ‘trusted legal vendor’s AI tool.’ The court found that blaming the AI tool did not excuse the attorney’s failure to personally verif
In one of the most egregious AI hallucination cases on record, an Oregon federal court dismissed plaintiffs’ claims with prejudice and imposed monetary sanctions after their attorneys filed three briefs containing citations to 15 non-existent cases and fabricated quotations falsely attributed to eig
In the Dominion/MyPillow defamation case, Judge Nina Wang sanctioned defense attorney Christopher Kachouroff $5,000 for misrepresenting a case citation in a post-trial brief — his second sanctions order in the same case, bringing cumulative penalties to $8,000 after earlier AI-hallucination violatio
Pro se plaintiffs in a cryptocurrency credit line dispute cited a repealed Indiana statute and a nonexistent Seventh Circuit case — prompting a judicial warning that AI may have assisted the filings. No sanctions, but the court explicitly invoked the Seventh Circuit’s AI accuracy warning.
A California Central District court granted a motion to dismiss a civil rights complaint while noting that plaintiff’s counsel cited cases with inaccurate descriptions — characteristic of AI-hallucinated briefs. The ‘Editor’s Note’ flag on the Westlaw opinion indicates courts and publishers are now