AI Abuse Court Cases

Search 1,395 source-linked cases involving fabricated citations and other AI-generated legal errors.

837 judge-case associations across 551 judges and 164 courts.

Source: Damien Charlotin

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Gilberto Garcia Perez v. Todd Blanche, et al.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas · Texas · Aug 18, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Reply cites Kostak v. Garland, No. 24-cv-11024-ADB, 2025 WL 2472136, at *4–6; Court found the case does not exist on Westlaw or court dockets. || Fabricated: Case Law | Reply cites Martinez Lopez v. Garland, No. 1:25-cv-00069, 2026 WL 1200000, at *4–5; Court found the case does not exist on Westlaw or court dockets. || Fabricated: Case Law | Reply cites Cruz-Reyes v. Decker, No. 1:25-cv-01719-MKV, 2025 WL 332315, at *4–6; Court found the case does not exist on Westlaw or court dockets. || Fabricated: Case Law | Reply cites Castanon Nava v. Garland, No. 2:25-cv-01308-JHC, 2026 WL 1234567, at *5–7; Court found the case does not exist on Westlaw or court dockets. || Fabricated: Case Law | Reply cites Duarte Escobar v. Garland, No. 1:25-cv-00963-MSN-LRV, 2025 WL 7061234, at *2–4; Court found the case does not exist on Westlaw or court dockets. || Fabricated: Case Law | Reply cites Garcia v. Mullin, No. 1:25-cv-00836-RP, 2026 WL 1045678, at *2–4, allegedly authored by this Court; Court found the decision is nonexistent.

Judges: Robert Lee Pitman

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Rene Carbonell v. United States of America

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas · Texas · Jun 30, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Movant's objections contained multiple fictitious or misleading case citations that the government characterized as generated by AI; the court noted the issue but did not identify or list specific fabricated citations in the opinion.

Judges: Robert Lee Pitman

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Ericka Holmes v. The University of Texas at Austin

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas · Texas · Feb 4, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel cited a nonexistent Fifth Circuit case 'Harris v. City of Houston (5th Cir. 2022)' to support an 'age-specific references' standard; court found the case does not exist and labeled it a hallucinated case. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Counsel attributed to Lenzi v. Systemax, Inc. a holding that 'discrimination claims may proceed without traditional comparator evidence,' which the court found to be a mischaracterization of Lenzi. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Counsel relied on Hamilton v. Dallas County as if it pertained to the comparator pleading requirement; the court found that Hamilton is unrelated to that element and was mischaracterized. || Misrepresented: Exhibits & Submissions | Multiple citations were improperly formatted or incorrect (examples flagged by the court), indicating inaccurate or AI-generated citation errors.

Judges: Robert Lee Pitman

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Yue v. Reaction Labs, LLC

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas · Texas · Jan 20, 2026

Misrepresented: Case Law | Court identified Lup's citation to Cummins-Allison Corp. v. SBM Co., No. 9:07-cv-196, 2009 WL 763926, at *10 as impossible because the cited order exists but is only eight pages long, making a page *10 citation incorrect. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Court noted Lup's citation to Fiber Sys. Int'l v. Applied Optical Sys., 2009 WL 8590962, at *8-9 is incorrect because the order is only six pages and was published on June 24, 2009 (not March 2009) — indicating misdated/mispaginated citation. || Fabricated: Case Law | Editor’s note and court flagged that the opinion contains citation references that are incorrect or do not actually exist, preserving invalid citations as part of the record.

Judges: Robert Lee Pitman

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Gonzalez v. Texas Taxpayers and Research Association

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas · Texas · Jan 29, 2025

In the case of Gonzalez v. Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, the court found that Plaintiff's counsel, John L. Pittman III, included fabricated citations, miscited cases, and misrepresented legal propositions in his response to a motion to dismiss. Pittman initially denied using AI but later admitted to using Lexis Nexis's AI citation generator. The court granted the defendant's motion to strike the plaintiff's response and imposed monetary sanctions on Pittman, requiring him to pay $3,852.50 in attorney's fees and $108.54 in costs to the defendant. The court deemed this an appropriate exercise of its inherent power due to the abundance of technical and substantive errors in the brief, which inhibited the defendant's ability to efficiently respond.

Judges: Robert Lee Pitman

Plaintiff's response was stricken and monetary sanctions were imposed.Party using AI: Represented by counselRead the decision ↗