Courts on AI / Fabricated or misquoted citations
Matter of: LOGMET LLC, B-423066.2
Government Accountability Office · Federal specialty courts · · B-423066.2 · No. FA810824RB001, issued by the Department of the Air · opinion
The Government Accountability Office on 2026-04-15 warned the self-represented party to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions in Matter of: LOGMET LLC, B-423066.2. The self-represented party filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Disposition
- The court warned the self-represented party to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions.
- Recorded conduct
- The self-represented party filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation. — 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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While we do not specifically address all of the protester’s arguments, we have considered them and conclude that they do not provide a basis to sustain the protest. We note that in reviewing the protester’s filings, we identified several irregularities in citations provided by the protester. In this regard, the protester cited decisions of our Office for which we were unable to locate the decisions identified by the protester and misrepresented the content of several decisions. For example, the protester cites to “Innovative Test Asset Solutions, LLC, B-419132, Dec. 16, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 398” for the proposition that “omissions affecting the evaluation of a scored factor are material defects” requiring further action from the agency. Protest at 5.