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Every incident where a lawyer got caught filing AI-fabricated citations. The Hall of Shame.

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ChatGPT 17 Claude 2 CoCounsel 2 LEAP 2 AI-assisted legal software 1 ChatGPT-4 1 Copilot 1 GPT-3.5 1 Gemini 1

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Referred to the bar $250 ChatGPT-4 2025-11-20
Plaintiff’s counsel filed a settlement-approval motion with AI-generated fake citations, and the court struck it, fined counsel, and referred him for discipline.
Buchanan v. Vuori, Inc. · James Dal Bon · U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California · CA
“the rise in non-existent cases and quotations hallucinated by artificial intelligence tools”
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  • Buchanan v. Vuori, Inc.; plaintiff’s counsel was sanctioned
  • A settlement-approval motion contained 8 false quotations and one nonexistent case from AI
  • Court ordered a $250 payment, struck the motions, and referred counsel to the Standing Committee
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco, California
  • Nov. 20, 2025; counsel used about six different AI tools and the court found Rule 11 and candor violations
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