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
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
A USA court addressed the use of Microsoft Copilot in legal proceedings in Arkansas Dhs v. April, examining whether AI-generated content in court submissions met professional standards. The decision adds to the growing body of case law holding lawyers accountable for unverified AI-generated citations and arguments.
A USA court addressed the use of AI tool in legal proceedings in IN RE SNOWFLAKE INC DATA SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION, examining whether AI-generated content in court submissions met professional standards. The decision adds to the growing body of case law holding lawyers accountable for unverified AI-generated citations and arguments.
A Australia court addressed the use of AI tool in legal proceedings in Morcos v. Bayside, examining whether AI-generated content in court submissions met professional standards. The decision adds to the growing body of case law holding lawyers accountable for unverified AI-generated citations and arguments.
A USA court addressed the use of AI tool in legal proceedings in THOMAS CARL DODDS JR, examining whether AI-generated content in court submissions met professional standards. The decision adds to the growing body of case law holding lawyers accountable for unverified AI-generated citations and arguments.
The Appellate Court of Maryland flagged non-existent case citations in a divorce appeal brief — citations that did not exist and were likely AI-generated. The Westlaw editor’s note explicitly identifies the decision as containing ‘incorrect or non-existent’ references, a pattern courts are increasingly calling out.
A Chicago pro se plaintiff brought Fair Housing Act claims against his landlords, but his filings contained references to cases that do not exist. The N.D. Illinois court granted dismissal of some claims while flagging the hallucinated citations in its published opinion.
The Bombay High Court quashed a ₹2.84 crore income tax reassessment order after discovering the Revenue’s legal brief cited judgments that did not exist — fabricated by an AI tool. The court held that proceedings built on non-existent precedent were fundamentally flawed and could not stand, marking one of India’s first formal judicial rejections of AI-hallucinated legal authority.
A Nevada federal court dismissed a pro se plaintiff’s case with prejudice after he repeatedly submitted filings containing misrepresented and non-existent case law — even after multiple explicit Rule 11 warnings and the threat of case-dispositive sanctions. The court found no satisfactory explanatio
