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Chief Judge Kendall sanctioned a pro se plaintiff $5,000 after finding 30+ AI hallucinations across two filings — including 13 in a single Rule 59(e) motion and a fabrication of language attributed to the court’s own prior order that the judge never wrote. The court’s grace had been exhausted.
A US District Court in Colorado ordered a pro se plaintiff to disclose which AI platform he used to process confidential discovery materials, and amended the protective order to bar uploading confidential information to mainstream AI tools. The ruling addresses the novel intersection of AI use, work
A pro se plaintiff in New York cited AI-generated cases to support a quiet title action; the Supreme Court of Dutchess County dismissed the action, warning that fabricated AI citations undermine judicial integrity and waste court resources.
Maryland’s Appellate Court issued an extraordinary editorial note confirming that an official custody opinion contained AI-generated fake citations that have been preserved in the record as written; the court affirmed father’s sole custody despite the embedded legal errors.
A New York federal court sanctioned attorneys Levidow, Levidow & Oberman after they submitted a ChatGPT-generated brief citing six entirely fabricated cases, refused to acknowledge the errors when challenged, and then doubled down by filing fraudulent “confirmation” letters. The $5,000 sanction and
A US court warned plaintiff’s counsel in Marino v. Marano after AI-generated citations for non-existent cases appeared in a civil brief filed March 25, 2026. The court ordered counsel to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed, reinforcing that attorney certification obligations apply fully t
A US federal court struck Makel’s opposition brief after discovering it cited non-existent cases generated by AI, issuing an order to show cause on sanctions. The court held that Rule 11 certification applies with full force to AI-assisted filings, and ignorance of AI’s hallucination tendency is not
An Ontario Superior Court judge found seven fabricated quotations in a Reply Factum attributed to real cases with correct CanLII citations. Counsel denied AI use but the court found the denial implausible, referred the matter to the Law Society of Ontario, and observed that ‘the cover-up may be wors
A pro se petitioner appealing his wrongful removal by the U.S. Army filed briefs stuffed with AI-hallucinated case citations before the Federal Circuit. The court issued a pointed warning: fabricated citations are sanctionable and can result in dismissal, even for self-represented litigants.
The Chief Justice of Texas’ First Court of Appeals issued a concurring opinion specifically to address what appeared to be AI-fabricated citations in a mandamus petition. The concurrence warned that filing documents with fictitious or misleading citations violates counsel’s duty of candour, and thre