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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Withers v. City of Aberdeen

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi · Mississippi · Jun 8, 2026

Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant's memorandum [99] cited Miller v. City of Greenville, 243 So. 2d 81, 83 (Miss. 1971), which the Court could not locate and deemed hallucinatory. || Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant's memorandum [104] cited Riley v. City of Tupelo, No. 1:20-CV-186-GHD-DAS, 2023 WL 3568661, at 3 (N.D. Miss. May 18, 2023), which the Court could not verify. || Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant's memorandum [104] cited Buckner v. Walker, No. 1:19-CV-146-SA-DAS, 2022 WL 2318582, at 4 (N.D. Miss. June 28, 2022), which the Court determined was fabricated. || Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant's memorandum [104] cited Harris v. City of Grenada, No. 3:18-CV-158-DMB-RP, 2021 WL 6062574, at 7 (N.D. Miss. Dec. 22, 2021), which the Court could not locate. || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's opposition [105] contained two citations the Court found nonexistent, including City of Grenada v. Harrelson, 84 So. 3d 35, 38 (Miss. Ct. App. 2012). || Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's opposition [105] cited Crittendon v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 99 So. 3d 751, 755 (Miss. 2012), which the Court identified as a hallucinatory citation. || False Quotes: Case Law | Post-show-cause review…

Judges: Sharion Aycock

Revoked pro hac vice; DQ resident attorneys from the case; Monetary Fine; Bar ReferralsParty using AI: Represented by counselRead the decision ↗

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Disability Rights Mississippi v. Palmer Home for Children

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi · Mississippi · Dec 19, 2025

False Quotes: Case Law | Quoted language attributed to SafetyNet does not appear in the opinion and Court found counsel misrepresented the case's holding when relying on the fake quote. || False Quotes: Case Law | Portion of quoted material attributed to the case was not contained in the opinion; counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before filing. || False Quotes: Case Law | Portion of quoted material attributed to the case was not contained in the opinion; counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before filing. || Fabricated: Case Law | Cited case does not exist as listed; actual reported case ends earlier and has no page 696 as cited. || Fabricated: Case Law | Citation 849 F. Supp. 1206 (N.D. Ind. 1994) does not correspond to any existing decision as cited; the case name corresponds to a different citation. || Fabricated: Case Law | Legal citation leads to an unrelated case; the Tanager Place citation as given is not the Tanager Place decision. || False Quotes: Case Law | Portion of quoted material attributed to the opinion does not appear in the case; counsel admitted she did not review the opinion prior to filing. || False Quotes: Case Law | Purported quote was…

Judges: Sharion Aycock

Monetary sanction; CLE requirement; notification to bar and other courts; attorney withdrawal.Party using AI: Represented by counselRead the decision ↗

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Brian Smith v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi · Mississippi · Nov 25, 2025

Fabricated: Case Law | Smith cited several non-existent cases in his Response; Wells Fargo identified them in its Reply and the Court independently confirmed the listed authorities are fictitious and warned of Rule 11 sanctions.

Judges: Sharion Aycock

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Blake Lewis v. Entergy Mississippi, LLC

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi · Mississippi · Sep 3, 2025

In her latter response to the Court, Counsel apologised for her use of a "a non-firm approved general AI service".

Judges: Andrew S Harris

Order to show causeParty using AI: Represented by counselRead the decision ↗

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Malone-Bey v. Lauderdale County School Board

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi · Mississippi · Jul 25, 2025

Rather ironically, plaintiff was seeking to disqualify law firm Butler Snow (of Johnson v. Dunn fame) from the case.

Judges: Michael T. Parker

Plaintiff's motion denied; warning issued for future filingsParty using AI: Self-representedRead the decision ↗

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Lionel Rayale Maurice v. Warden Barry Wingfield

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi · Mississippi · Jun 9, 2025

Fabricated: Case Law | Petitioner cited "Gonzalez v. United States, 959 F. Supp. 2d 728 (W.D. Tex. 2013)", which the court determined does not exist and thus is a fabricated case citation. || Fabricated: Case Law | Petitioner cited "Garza v. Davis, 596 F. App'x 319 (5th Cir. 2015)", but the court found the citation did not correspond to that authority; the provided citation actually referred to Torres v. Krueger (a bankruptcy case) and the cited Garza does not exist as presented.

Judges: Michael T. Parker

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