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A Mississippi federal court ordered plaintiff’s attorney Aaron Randall Rice to show cause why he should not be sanctioned under Rule 11 after his opposition brief cited a fictitious Fifth Circuit case and included fabricated quotes from real decisions.
Maine federal judge imposed non-monetary sanctions on attorney Kelly Guagenty after she used Claude or ChatGPT to generate case citations that were fabricated, then filed a Notice of Errata that introduced additional inaccuracies. The sanction focused on education: attending AI CLE, creating firm AI
The Arizona federal court resolved post-judgment asset freeze disputes in the FTC enforcement action against James Noland, affirming a $7.3 million fraud judgment; this case does not involve AI hallucinations and is noted for context only.
A pro se maintenance technician alleging sexual harassment and retaliation by Sherwin-Williams filed a prolific docket of motions, with the court noting potential AI-assisted research errors. Several Title VII claims were dismissed while others survive pending amendment, illustrating how AI use by u
SDNY Magistrate Judge Gorenstein fined attorney Tricia Lindsay $2,500 under Rule 11 after her opposition briefs cited numerous fabricated cases; Lindsay offered no coherent explanation for the source of the fake citations and failed to confirm they had been manually verified.
Texas’s Fifth District Court of Appeals affirmed a foreclosure judgment and separately identified that a citation in the appellants’ reply brief appeared to be a hallucinated case from this court that could not be located after extensive research.
Shaun Fleck, founder of an AI company called MarketPulse AI, sued a Delaware credit union over an auto loan dispute using RICO, FCRA, and constitutional claims; the Oregon federal court dismissed most claims but allowed the FCRA claim to proceed.
An Assistant U.S. Attorney was ordered to appear before a federal court in North Carolina after fabricated quotations and misrepresented case holdings were found across five government filings — including fabricated regulatory text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Supervisors and the Civil Divi
Parents suing a school district over the sexual exploitation of their disabled child found their lawyers undermined by AI-hallucinated case citations. The court flagged multiple phantom authorities in the plaintiffs’ brief while largely allowing their substantive claims — Title IX, ADA, and First Am
A pro se plaintiff in New York fabricated statutory language and invented quotes from real US Supreme Court cases in insurance filings, leading to a filing injunction under Rule 11 and the court’s inherent authority, with dismissal of all claims.