Articles on criminal law, civil litigation, family & corporate law from a Kota-based advocate.
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
A pro se Alaska Native shareholder filed a 70-page complaint challenging a 643,000-acre land transfer and subsequent mining leases under ANCSA. The court dismissed the case for lack of federal subject-matter jurisdiction, finding the claims arose under state law despite involving federal statutory l
Plaintiff’s counsel in a BART transit lawsuit filed an opposition brief containing three non-existent case citations — likely AI hallucinations — and then failed to respond to the court’s show cause order entirely. The court imposed a $1,000 sanction, referred the matter to the California State Bar,
A Florida pro se appellant challenging election procedures filed briefs citing numerous non-existent cases and quoting real cases for propositions they do not support. The Second District Court of Appeal affirmed dismissal, issued a formal warning that future AI-hallucinated filings will face advers