Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed a contract enforcement order against a pro se defendant and publicly warned him that future unverified AI use could trigger sanctions — marking its disapproval with a ChatGPT-generated limerick about vanishing case citations.
A California attorney representing herself in a foreclosure dispute was sanctioned after the court found she placed quotation marks around sentences that never appeared in the cited opinions. The court held her to a higher standard than ordinary pro se litigants and found deliberate intent to mislea
A defendant attorney who used AI to draft a special motion to dismiss admitted to the court that AI wrote the brief. After finding eight problematic citations, the court excised the AI-generated portions and decided the motion on the statutory framework alone — denying the motion and holding that de
Florida’s 6th District Court of Appeal dismissed a certiorari petition and issued a show cause order against attorney Karin Gerardin after her AI-assisted filing cited non-existent cases and misrepresented actual holdings. The court warned it will refer attorneys to The Florida Bar for AI-related mi
Pro se plaintiffs in Maryland filed 7 motions in 3 weeks and 40 pages in a single day — a volume the court identified as likely AI-generated — while also citing a nonexistent case. The court imposed a 4-page filing limit and threatened a filing injunction.
A pro se plaintiff in Louisiana received a $500 Rule 11 sanction after filing multiple briefs with AI-fabricated citations — continuing the pattern even after a court warning, self-audit order, and show-cause hearing. Dismissal now looms as the next step.
A pro se plaintiff admitted using AI to draft filings in an insurance dispute but repeatedly misrepresented the law, citing phantom cases and cases that stood for unrelated propositions. The court denied sanctions against defense counsel while warning that all litigants must verify AI-generated lega
A junior attorney at the New Orleans City Attorney’s office used ChatGPT to find supporting cases for a motion to dismiss and submitted nine non-existent citations without checking them. The supervising attorney, who reviewed the brief but failed to verify the unusual bullet-pointed citations, was s
An Alabama attorney filed opening and reply briefs in a Supreme Court appeal that contained an astounding number of invalid, inaccurate, and irrelevant citations — all apparent AI hallucinations. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal entirely, imposed sanctions, and issued a comprehensive ruling on
A pro se Cuban national fighting USCIS naturalization delays cited a fabricated Supreme Court quotation and misread a 1926 precedent. Judge Abelson warned of sanctions and remanded, confirming courts hold self-represented litigants to the same standard as attorneys on AI hallucinations.