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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.

Mar 2025 Aug 2026

Charting 2 of 3 incidents — the rest are undated or fall outside this window.

Blamed by name

ChatGPT 156 Claude 9 Copilot 8 Gemini 7 Lexis+ AI 4 LegalAI 3 Westlaw Precision 3 ChatOn 2 CoCounsel 2 LEAP 2 AI-assisted legal software 1 AI-based legal software 1 Archie 1 Centient AI 1 ChatGPT-4o 1 Descrybe.ai 1 Eve 1 GPT-3.5 1 Generative artificial intelligence (unsp 1 Ghostwriter Legal 1 Google AI Overview 1 Google Scholar 1 Grammarly 1 Grok 1 Legal Genius 1 Lexis 1 Lexis Nexis 1 Morgan & Morgan’s in-house Artificial In 1 OpenCase 1 OpenLaw 1 Perplexity AI 1 Westlaw CoCounsel 1 Westlaw’s CoCounsel 1 in-house AI database 1

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

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All Filing dismissed 3

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Filing dismissed LegalAI
The court dismissed a mandamus petition after plaintiffs filed LegalAI-backed papers with nonexistent cases, fake quotes, and at least four made-up citations.
Oregon Supreme Court case · Oregon Supreme Court · OR
““Rather than taking the time necessary to ensure that they did not compound the burdens on the court, however,” the justices wrote in their order that less than 12 hours after receiving the order, plaintiffs dug a deeper hole by filing “a declaration that included citations to at least four cases that do not exist in the Oregon Appellate Reports or the Oregon Reports.””
ijpr.org ↗
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  • Oregon Supreme Court case; plaintiffs were sanctioned by dismissal.
  • They submitted supporting documents using LegalAI with fabricated citations and fake quotes.
  • The court dismissed the petition for a writ of mandamus.
  • Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon.
  • Friday ruling in June 2026; justices said the papers added fabricated legal arguments and cited at least four nonexistent cases.
Filing dismissed LegalAI 2026-06-05
The court dismissed a mandamus petition after relators filed supporting documents with nonexistent cases and fabricated quotes generated by LegalAI.
Aldridge v. Tussing · Oregon Supreme Court · OR
“The injection of false precedent undermines the integrity of the proceedings. Doing it repeatedly, and in response to a show cause order, warrants imposition of a meaningful sanction.”
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  • Aldridge v. Tussing involved relators who filed a mandamus petition with fabricated AI-generated citations and quotes.
  • The Oregon Supreme Court struck the petition and the response, then dismissed the proceeding entirely.
  • Sanction type: dismissal; no monetary amount was imposed in this order.
  • Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon; state court sanction issued on 2026-06-05.
  • The fabrications were attributed to LegalAI, and the court said repeated false precedent warranted a meaningful sanction.
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