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An Illinois federal court denied a sanctions motion against a pro se plaintiff in a legal malpractice case but warned that any further false citations may result in dismissal using the court’s inherent authority. The case illustrates how courts increasingly treat AI-generated citation errors as a fi
A California appellate court affirmed a vexatious litigant order against a pro se appellant who submitted fabricated quotations from real cases across his opening and reply briefs. The court documented specific invented passages in its published opinion and issued a formal warning.
An Indiana appellate court found that a pro se appellant’s brief contained North Eastern Reporter citations that did not match stated case names — concluding the errors were ‘more likely’ from AI research. Admonishment issued; the trial court’s denial of a protective order was affirmed.
Texas’s Seventh Court of Appeals upheld $14,271.25 in attorney’s fees against a pro se plaintiff whose AI-generated brief cited non-existent cases and contained fabricated quotations from real cases, with the trial court having already warned her that AI use does not excuse misrepresentations.
A Pennsylvania Superior Court suspected AI drafting after finding a stepmother’s custody appeal brief cited cases that did not support claimed propositions. The court warned that AI-hallucinated citations risk waiving the arguments they purport to support under Pennsylvania appellate rules.
A Massachusetts Superior Court denied a Morgan & Morgan attorney’s pro hac vice application based on his prior Wyoming AI sanction — where Morgan & Morgan’s in-house ‘MX2.law’ AI platform generated 8 hallucinated case citations that the attorney signed without reading. AI sanctions now travel across
The BC Civil Resolution Tribunal found a self-represented strata owner’s submissions cited non-existent CRT cases, incorrect citations, and a Strata Property Act subsection that does not exist — identifying these as ‘likely hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence.’
The Sixth Circuit removed a CJA-appointed attorney from a criminal appeal after discovering his briefs — drafted using Westlaw’s CoCounsel AI — contained three fabricated quotations attributed to real cases. The attorney is denied CJA compensation, referred for bar discipline, and replaced. A landma
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, suing pro se, cited non-existent statutory language from the VGMVPL and multiple non-existent cases in her Fox News employment litigation. SDNY inferred AI tool use, struck her unauthorized sur-reply, and warned that future AI citation violations may result in s
Pro se attorney Harry Thomasson filed an opposition brief containing fictitious AI-generated case citations in a New York federal case, then blamed a computer virus for the hallucinations. Judge Wicks rejected the defence, imposed a $1,500 sanction, and declined a bar referral — setting clear parame