Courts on AI / Fabricated or misquoted citations
Bruno Roberto Rodriguez v. Kathryn Louise Rodriguez
Florida District Court of Appeal, Sixth District · State appellate courts · FL · · 2026 WL 785016 · No. 6D2025-3086 Lower Tribunal No. 2025-DR-002837-O · order
The Florida District Court of Appeal, Sixth District on 2026-04-10 ordered counsel to show cause why sanctions or corrective action should not issue for the defective authorities in Bruno Roberto Rodriguez v. Kathryn Louise Rodriguez. Counsel filed a brief with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Disposition
- The court ordered counsel to show cause why sanctions or corrective action should not issue for the defective authorities.
- Recorded conduct
- Counsel filed a brief with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation. — outcome: pending; actor: lawyer
- Canonical record
- Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules
What the court wrote
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We recently addressed a similar scenario where a pro se litigant submitted a filing to this Court that cited to non-existent cases, as well as cited to actual cases which did not stand for the legal propositions asserted in the filing. See Hessert v. Hessert, No. 6D2026-0121, 2026 WL 785016 (Fla. 6th DCA Mar. 20, 2026). In Hessert, we acknowledged that “[c]ourts across the United States, including Florida’s appellate courts, are currently grappling with an influx of court filings “Generative AI[—i. e. , generative artificial intelligence—]are deep-learning models that compile data to generate statistically probable outputs when prompted. . . . Generative AI can create original images, analyze documents, and draft briefs based on written prompts. Often, these programs rely on large language models.
Authorities cited in the passage: See Hessert v. Hessert, No. 6D2026-0121, 2026 WL 785016 (Fla
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