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Hessert v. Hessert & Wieland-Pulayya

Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal · State appellate courts · FL · 2026-03-20 · 2026 WL 785016 · No. 2D2024-1772 · opinion

Fabricated or misquoted citations

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 ordered the petitioner to show cause why sanctions should not issue for a petition with nonexistent cases and inaccurate legal propositions.
Recorded conduct: The petition used fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities that the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported for the propositions asserted. — outcome: pending; actor: litigant in person
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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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