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 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
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
Florida attorney Jeffrey Sullivan admitted using ChatGPT to research and draft a motion to dismiss that cited non-existent cases. Judge Mizelle imposed a minimal but public sanction: Sullivan was ordered to send his client copies of the show-cause order and this ruling, effectively turning client di