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Santos v. Hoboken Public School District, et al.
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Judges: Susan Davis Wigenton
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Judges: Susan Davis Wigenton
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Judges: Michael A. Hammer
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Fabricated: Case Law | Multiple cases cited by plaintiffs were so inaccurately cited that the Court was unable to locate them and questioned whether they exist. || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiffs used a quotation that does not appear in the cited case (false quotation noted by the Court).
Judges: Edward Sunyol Kiel
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False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff cited Duff v. Trenton Beverage Co., 73 A.2d 578 (1950) for the proposition that a contract 'never becomes binding' if a condition precedent is not completed; the court found the quoted language does not appear in Duff. || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff cited Mazziotti v. Allstate Ins. Co., 240 N.J. Super. 173, 180 (App. Div. 1990) to support a New Jersey-law proposition; the court found this citation to be incorrect (actual reported Mazziotti is 695 A.2d 1010 (Conn. 1997)) and the quoted language does not appear in the Connecticut case. || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff cited Jordan v. Fox, Rothschild, O’Brien & Frankel, 20 F.3d 1250 (3d Cir. 1994) for the proposition that a district court 'may not consider matters extraneous to the pleadings' on a motion to dismiss; the court found that quoted language does not appear in Jordan.
Judges: Brian R. Martinotti
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Misrepresented: Case Law | Doyle cited Vazquez v. Triad Media Solutions, 2016 WL 155044, at *2 as applying Twombly/Iqbal to affirmative defenses; the court could not locate an opinion supporting that proposition and found the citation mischaracterized. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Doyle cited Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston, 459 U.S. 375, 388 (1983) for an incorrect proposition about punitive damages under the FHA; the court noted Herman & MacLean is a securities case and was misapplied. || Fabricated: Case Law | The motion contained numerous citations that could not be verified or did not support the propositions for which they were cited; the court described these as hallucinatory or fabricated citations and warned the litigant.
Judges: Brian R. Martinotti
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Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited a Ninth Circuit opinion 'Doe v. Bogan, 93 F.3d 544, 551 (9th Cir. 1996),' which the Court was unable to locate and concluded does not appear to exist as cited. || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff attributed language to Int'l Bhd. of Teamsters, Loc. No. 310, 587 F.2d 1176, 1182 (D.C. Cir. 1978) that the Court could not locate in the opinion (misquoted/attributed language). || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff cited Welling v. Alexy, 155 F.R.D. 654, 657 (N.D. Cal. 1994) for a proposition about irreparable psychological/reputational harm, but the Court was unable to locate that language in the opinion (misquoted).
Judges: Cari Fais, Jamel Ken Semper
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Fabricated: Case Law | Supplemental Filing contained forty-three identified instances of fabricated citations or case law; Court declined to consider the filing and treated those propositions as unsupported. || Fabricated: Case Law | Consolidated Complaint was 'replete with citations to irrelevant, and sometimes fabricated, case law' across many paragraphs; Court refused to credit those citations. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Defendants noted several incorrect/inaccurate citations in the Consolidated Complaint, including two cases cited over fifty times that did not support Plaintiffs' propositions; counsel's errata did not cure these inaccuracies. || False Quotes: Exhibits & Submissions | Plaintiffs' Opposition contained AI drafting artifacts and unchecked inserted text (e.g., 'Let me know when you’d like to proceed to the next section: Count Eight . . .'), evidencing unverified AI-generated material and potential false quotations in submissions.
Judges: Jamel Ken Semper, Leda Dunn Wettre
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Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited a case that the Court could not locate; the Court determined 'Pruco Life Ins. Co. of New Jersey v. Carrasco, 2022 WL 1210718 (D.N.J. Apr. 25, 2025)' does not appear to exist and flagged this as non-existent authority.
Judges: Christine Patricia O'Hearn
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Plaintiff's counsel filed a Notice of Errata admitting that erroneous citation and quotation errors in multiple briefs resulted from the attorney's use of generative AI. The Court refused to consider the amended briefs/errata for purposes of its decision and treated any propositions supported solely by the incorrect or made-up citations as unsupported. The Court declined to impose sanctions but warned the attorney that relying on AI without proper oversight can be sanctionable under the New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct.
Judges: Jamel Ken Semper
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Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel cited a case that could not be verified at all and appears to be entirely fabricated; counsel admitted the citation could not be verified. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Counsel cited a case that addressed an irrelevant topic and thus did not support the proposition asserted (mischaracterized authority). || False Quotes: Case Law | Counsel attributed quotations to cited opinions that the opinions did not contain (false quotations/misattribution).
Judges: Jose R. Almonte