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

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Last 18 months of published incidents, by the date of the court's order.

Apr 2025 Sep 2026

Blamed by name

ChatGPT 32 Gemini 4 Claude 2 Perplexity AI 2 AI Overviews 1 ChatGPT-4o 1 ChatOn 1 Eve 1 Grammarly 1 MX2.law 1 OpenCase 1

Counts only incidents where the filing court or the reporting named the tool.

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All Fined 4 Referred to the bar 2 Caught, not sanctioned 2 Warned 1

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Caught, not sanctioned Claude 2026-05-06
A court filing in the Trump layoffs case contained phantom legal quotations generated by Claude Console, prompting sanctions scrutiny.
Trump layoffs court filing involving phantom legal quotations · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · NY
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  • Trump layoffs court filing involving phantom legal quotations
  • Claude Console generated the false legal quotations in the filing
  • The page does not say a sanction was imposed
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
  • 2026-05-06; the incident was about fabricated quotations, not citations
Caught, not sanctioned Claude 2025-05-23
Latham filed an expert declaration with a Claude-formatted citation that fabricated the article title and authors.
Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC · Latham & Watkins · N.D. Cal. · CA
“undermines the overall credibility”
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  • Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC involved Latham and Watkins.
  • Claude was used to format a reference, but it fabricated the title and authors.
  • Judge Susan van Keulen struck the affected paragraph; no one was sanctioned.
  • N.D. Cal., California.
  • May 2025; the error was a single citation in an expert declaration.
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