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Nguedi v. General Dynamics Information Technology

United States District Court for the District of Columbia · Federal district courts · DC · 2026-03-31 · No. 23-2965 (RDM) · memorandum opinion

Fabricated or misquoted citations

On 2026-03-31, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted judgment to the employer and rejected the plaintiff’s filings after finding inaccurate citations and unsupported legal propositions. A self-represented party submitted a filing with nonexistent or misstated legal provisions, false quotations, fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities.

Disposition: The court granted GDIT’s summary-judgment motion, denied plaintiff’s reconsideration and supplemental-brief motions, and denied the AO’s and GDIT’s requests for further vexatious-filing relief.
Recorded conduct: Nguedi’s filings contained multiple nonexistent quotations and misleading citations, including quotes not in Brady, Figueroa, and Doe v. United States Postal Service and misstatements of McMillan and Richardson; he told the court he used AI to research. — outcome: noted, no consequence; actor: litigant in person
Canonical record: Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

What the court wrote

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Finally, the Court notes that Plaintiff’s filings contain multiple inaccurate or misleading citations, perhaps due to the use of artificial intelligence in researching the relevant law. See July 14, 2025 Hrg. Tr. (Rough at 10) (“I only use AI on my computer to research all of these things.”). ... But the use of nonexistent quotations and misleading case citations “dramatically weakens” his submissions as he has failed “to cite to supporting authority.” ... Plaintiff claims that page 495 of Brady v. Office of Sergeant at Arms ... contains the quote ... But this quote appears nowhere in that decision.

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Notes: Official copy located 2026-09-08 via govinfo; quoted passage confirmed in the official document. Re-coded from the document 2026-09-08 (independent second read).

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