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Hessert v. Hessert
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Sixth District · State appellate courts · FL · · --- So.3d ----, 2026 WL 785016 · No. 2D2024-1772 · opinion
On 2026-03-20, Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal ordered the petitioner to show cause why sanctions should not issue for a petition with nonexistent cases and inaccurate legal propositions. A self-represented party submitted a petition with fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities.
- Disposition
- The court denied the petition and ordered petitioner to file a supplemental appendix and show cause why sanctions should not issue.
- Recorded conduct
- The petition cited thirteen cases: five did not exist and four real cases did not support the asserted propositions. — outcome: pending; actor: litigant in person
- Canonical record
- Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules
What the court wrote
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--- So.3d ----, 2026 WL 785016 Footnotes “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. The datasets utilized by generative AI large language models can included billions of parameters making it virtually impossible to determine how a program came to a specific result.... [G]enerative AI can hallucinate or create inaccurate answers that sound convincing.” Fla. Bar Ethics Op. 24-1, at 1-2 (Jan. 19, 2024) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted). Government Works.
Authorities cited in the passage: Fla. Bar Ethics Op. 24-1
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