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Michael T-Alexander v. Michelle Baass et al.

California Court of Appeal, Sixth District · State appellate courts · CA · · 2026 WL 1004593 · No. 23CV01552 · opinion

Fabricated or misquoted citations

The California Court of Appeal, Sixth District on 2026-04-14 admonished the self-represented appellant for unverified or fabricated authorities and cautioned against repeating the citation misconduct. The self-represented appellant filed a reply brief with one fabricated case citation and two false case quotations, including Tennessee v. Lane that do not appear in that opinion.

Disposition
The court admonished the self-represented appellant for unverified or fabricated authorities and cautioned against repeating the citation misconduct.
Recorded conduct
The self-represented appellant filed a reply brief with one fabricated case citation and two false case quotations, including Tennessee v. Lane that do not appear in that opinion and People v. Superior Court. — outcome: warning; actor: litigant in person
Canonical record
Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

What the court wrote

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4th 737, 750, for the following quotation: “a judge may not act on personal knowledge of facts not presented in evidence or conduct an independent investigation of facts not in evidence. ” However, no such quotation appears in that case, or in any other case this court was able to locate. In addition to the other such instance in his opening brief identified above, T-Alexander's reply brief contains numerous similar fabricated quotations. The record also shows that T-Alexander acknowledged having included inaccurate citations in briefing in the trial court. We caution appellant that such conduct violates the California Rules of Court and Code of Civil Procedure, notwithstandingthefactthatheisunrepresented. (See,e.

Authorities cited in the passage: Tennessee v. Lane that do not appear in that opinion · Appellant cited People v. Superior Court

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