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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18 cases found · 10 maximum per page
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Falkenstein v. Niles
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Sep 3, 2026
False Quotes: Case Law | The motion placed in quotation marks language attributing personal trademark-infringement liability to an individual who was the “moving, active conscious force behind the [defendant’s] infringement.” The Court stated that Yost does not contain that language and instead says an officer may be liable for torts he “authorizes or directs or in which he participates.” || Misrepresented: Case Law | The motion attributed to Cumulus Media a successor-in-interest priority proposition that the Court could not locate in the cited pages, which principally address abandonment. || Misrepresented: Exhibits & Submissions | The reply represented that Complaint paragraph 21 alleged that Niles engaged musicians for specific shows, selected the band name, and organized and controlled the enterprise. The Court found those allegations were not in paragraph 21 and noted that “engaged” did not appear there. || Misrepresented: Case Law | The reply relied on the absence of partnership documents while citing Barr, although Barr states that “[f]ormalities of quasi-corporate organization are not required.” || False Quotes: Case Law | The preliminary-injunction opposition attributed a…
Judges: Stanley Blumenfeld Jr.
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Michael Dotson v. Bob Evans Farms, LLC
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Aug 20, 2026
False Quotes: Case Law | Application attributes quoted language to Mission Power, 883 F. Supp. 488, though that language does not appear there; the language appears in Horne v. Wells Fargo, 969 F. Supp. 2d 1203, 1205 (C.D. Cal. 2013). Court identified this as an AI-style hallucination.
Judges: Michelle Williams Court
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Pedro Paulo Mansur Pagano Sampaio v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Jul 2, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff withdrew several cited authorities that the Notice of Errata states do not exist. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Plaintiff withdrew several existing authorities that, according to the Notice of Errata, do not support the propositions for which they were cited.
Judges: John F. Walter
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Song Dow Lee, et al. v. HSBC Bank USA, National Association, et al.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · May 7, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiffs included a non-existent quotation and citation presented as from 'BPi Bright Power, Inc. v. Umpqua Holding Corp., 669 F.Supp.3d 904, 906 (N.D. Cal. 2023).' The court noted the citation/quote did not exist. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Plaintiffs misrepresented the holding of the cited case by quoting that the court recognized Article 4A 'addresses the mechanics of executing wire transfers and payment orders,' excluding banks' pre-contractual representations; the court flagged this as a misrepresentation.
Judges: John F. Walter
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Tekoma Chaney v. Transdev Services Inc. et al.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Apr 28, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Attributed 'In re Shubert, 799 F.3d 1124, 1129 (9th Cir. 2015)' as authority in Plaintiff's Opposition to Ogilvie's MSJ (p.17); Court found the case fabricated and the reporter/pincite corresponds to an unrelated real case. || Fabricated: Case Law | Same fabricated citation used twice in Plaintiff's Opposition to Transdev's MSJ (Opp'n TMSJ pp.15–16); Court noted counsel failed to disclose these additional uses in initial declaration. || Fabricated: Case Law | Third instance of the same fabricated authority appearing in briefing; Court treated repeated uses as aggravating factor in finding bad faith and imposing monetary and reporting sanctions.
Judges: Otis D. Wright II
Monetary Sanction; Reporting to other courtsParty using AI: Represented by counselRead the decision ↗ AI-related case
James Jordan v. USA, Clinicas Del Camino Real, Inc., et al.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Apr 6, 2026
False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff attributes a direct quotation to City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons (522 U.S. 156) that does not appear in that opinion; plaintiff also mis-cited the case name order. || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cites Nevada Power Co. v. Monsanto Co., 151 F.3d 1201, 1205 (9th Cir. 1998); the reporter/pincite (151 F.3d 1201) actually corresponds to McKeon v. United States, and Nevada Power is at a different reporter citation—court calls this an "apparently fake citation."
Judges: Otis D. Wright II
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Modern Floor Specialists, Inc. et al. v. City of Los Angeles et al.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Apr 3, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel cited a purported Ninth Circuit case 'Mabee v. County of Orange, 784 F. App'x 585, 588 (9th Cir. 2019)'; the court found no such case and that the reporter/pincite instead corresponds to Cochran v. City of Wichita (10th Cir.). Court ordered counsel to produce the Mabee opinion or show cause.
Judges: Otis D. Wright II
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Leonard Colbert v. County of Riverside
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Mar 31, 2026
Fabricated: Legal Norm | Opposition included a quoted purported provision of Cal. Gov't Code § 845.4 that the court could not locate in the statute or in any case; court suggested counsel may have used AI and failed to confirm accuracy. || Fabricated: Case Law | The opinion notes multiple citation references in the record that are incorrect or do not exist; Editor's Note removed links to those invalid citations.
Judges: Sheri N. Pym
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Jared Ashcraft v. First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company, et al.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Mar 25, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited "GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc., No. 12-cv-1247, 2016 WL 3635771, at *4–5 (D. Del. June 29, 2016)" but the Court's Westlaw search returned no documents for 2016 WL 3635771; the District of Delaware docket numbers and dates did not match and no opinion on that date was found.
Judges: John D. Early
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Meriland Keith Dillard v. CBS Studios, Inc.
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California · California · Mar 16, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Jorgensen v. CBS, Inc., 728 F.2d 958 (8th Cir. 1984),' which the Court found does not exist and misrepresents the reporter citation (728 F.2d 953 is United States v. Johns (7th Cir. 1984)). Court treated the citation as a fabricated authority. || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Lamon v. Godbolt, 2015 WL 13647670 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 30, 2015),' which the Court found to be nonexistent in the Central District and the Westlaw number refers to an unrelated state-court matter; Court treated this as a fabricated/fictitious citation. || Fabricated: Exhibits & Submissions | Unauthorized supplemental brief (Dkt. 64) contained images with nonsensical spellings and text (e.g., 'Twombly/idqal + Three Bays'; 'Comedie Freeze'), which the Court identified as likely generated by AI and therefore fabricated exhibit content.
Judges: John Arnold Kronstadt
