AI Abuse Court Cases

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Wayne K. Smith, Sr. v. Polk County, et al.

W.D. North Carolina · Jurisdiction not recorded · Aug 7, 2026

Order to Show Cause is here.

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Hack v. Preston et al

U.S. District Court for the District of Utah · Utah · Aug 7, 2026

Misrepresented: Case Law | Reply brief relied on Hukill but provided an incorrect citation and mischaracterized the Tenth Circuit's analysis; court flagged the misrepresentation and warned about AI hallucinations.

Judges: David Ogden Nuffer

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In the matter of Machinsky

Massachusetts Land Court · Jurisdiction not recorded · Aug 7, 2026

Fabricated: Legal Norm | Defendant attributed a non-existent quotation to G.L. c. 185, § 86; the court found the quoted language does not appear in that statute or elsewhere. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Defendant cited Commonwealth v. LeBlanc as supporting recusal, but the court found LeBlanc irrelevant to recusal and not on point. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Defendant cited Peterson v. Hopson and King v. Driscoll as authorities for limits on Rule 70, but the court noted neither case addresses Rule 70 or the duties of a commissioner and one predates the Rules.

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United States of America v. Smith

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois · Illinois · Aug 7, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not find the purported case relied on by petitioner in briefing. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Petitioner attributed a holding to Jones that would have required resentencing; Court found the case real but mischaracterized (Jones affirmed the sentence). || Misrepresented: Case Law | Petitioner said Scott supported a cumulative-effect ineffective-assistance argument; Court found Scott did not contain that discussion. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court unable to locate the cited Rivera decision and URL led nowhere; citation unsupported. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Petitioner cited Aviles-Colon as reversing for misrepresentation of loss amount; Court noted Aviles-Colon was a remand in a Brady context and did not support petitioner's asserted point. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not locate the cited Johnson decision petitioner relied on for the proposition that prosecutorial exaggeration is improper. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not locate or verify the cited case; petitioner relied on this citation to support his §2C1.1 argument. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court could not locate the cited decision that petitioner attributed supporting…

Judges: Edmond E-Min Chang

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Brown v. Real Estate Capital of America et al.

SC New York · Jurisdiction not recorded · Aug 7, 2026

False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiffs' opposition contains a quotation attributed to a cited case that does not appear in that case; movants allege the passage was fabricated (likely by generative AI) and used to support an argument.

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Isles v. Family Dollar

Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One · Arizona · Aug 6, 2026

Judges: Anni Hill Foster, D. Andrew Gaona, David B. Gass

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Girija Kadlaskar v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska · Nebraska · Aug 6, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel cited a non-existent Eighth Circuit case 'Peterson v. U.S. Retirement Board, 785 F.2d 245' to support an EAJA proposition; the Court found the citation fabricated and traced the wording to a committee report quoted in Jackson v. Bowen.

Judges: Joseph F. Bataillon

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Burgess v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio · Ohio · Aug 6, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant's Opposition cited 'State ex rel. Shimola v. City of Cleveland' at 70 Ohio St.3d 40 (incorrect/misleading citation); the Court found this citation hallucinatory and noted the actual Shimola decision is at 70 Ohio St.3d 100, 637 N.E.2d 325.

Judges: Pamela Ann Barker

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Mohamed Ali v. Saeed Osman

North Dakota Supreme Court · North Dakota · Aug 6, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Appellant's brief included multiple fictitious or nonexistent case citations unrelated to the propositions cited; Court found numerous fabricated citations and sanctioned appellant. || False Quotes: Case Law | Appellant quoted phrases attributed to authorities that the Court found could not be located in the cited sources.

Judges: Jerod E. Tufte, Jon J. Jensen, Lisa K. Fair McEvers

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In re BFI Waste Sys. of Tenn.

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee · Tennessee · Aug 6, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Document included misleading and false legal citations that gave the impression of supporting authority; some citations were nonexistent or did not support the asserted propositions. || False Quotes: Case Law | Filed brief contained quotations that did not exist—court determined quoted material attributed to cases was fabricated and unsupported.

Judges: Luke A Evans