Dotson v. Bob Evans Farms, LLC

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At three different points in his Application, Plaintiff attributes quoted language to Mission Power, 883 F. Supp. at 492, which appears nowhere in the body of the cited case. See Appl. at 7:10–7:15, 10:5–10:8, 10:17–10:22. The discrepancies between the quoted language and the language of the cited case are so significant as to abrogate any assumption that the misattributions are the result of typographical error. Plaintiff’s repeated inclusion of quotations misattributed to Mission Power, which are present in the language of an entirely different case, 1 “bear the hallmarks of hallucinated cases created by artificial intelligence (‘AI’) tools.” Cummins v. Becerra, No. 1:25-CV-01853-DC-AC, 2026 WL 373336, at *1 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 10, 2026) ... Accordingly, the Court SETS an ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Re: Monetary Sanctions and State Bar Referral of Todd M. Friedman for breach of the duty of candor to the Court.

Authorities cited in the passage: Mission Power Engineering Co. v. Continental Casualty Co., 883 F. Supp. 488 (C.D. Cal. 1995) · Horne v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 969 F. Supp. 2d 1203 (C.D. Cal. 2013) · Cummins v. Becerra, 2026 WL 373336 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 10, 2026) · Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 678 F. Supp. 3d 443 (S.D.N.Y. 2023)