Courts on AI / Fabricated or misquoted citations
Van Deel v. A-Plus Contracting, LLC
Missouri Court of Appeals · State appellate courts · MO · · 2026 WL 1216594 · opinion
The Missouri Court of Appeals on 2026-05-05 dismissed the appeal because the appellant’s brief violated appellate briefing rules and included inaccurate or nonexistent caselaw citations in Van Deel v. A-Plus Contracting, LLC. Counsel filed a brief with two fabricated case citations, including B.M. v. J.S.
- Disposition
- The court dismissed the appeal because the appellant’s brief violated appellate briefing rules and included inaccurate or nonexistent caselaw citations.
- Recorded conduct
- Counsel filed a brief with two fabricated case citations, including B.M. v. J.S. — outcome: other; actor: lawyer
- Canonical record
- Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules
What the court wrote
Verbatim from the court's document (public domain). Ellipses mark omitted text; nothing is paraphrased.
3d ----, 2026 WL 1216594 Footnotes 1 All Rule references are to Missouri Supreme Court Rules (2018) unless otherwise specified. Van Deel v. A-Plus Contracting, LLC, --- S. W. 3d ---- (2026) 2 Appellant's brief contains other deficiencies impeding appellate review, including multiple inaccurate or nonexistent caselaw citations. It also mistakenly denominates this Court as the “U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri,” rather than our proper name “The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District. ” 3 Rule 84. 04(d)(1) also provides a format for points on appeal, stating that, “The point shall be in substantially the following form: ‘The trial court erred in [identify the challenged ruling or action], because [state the legal reasons for the claim of reversible error], in that [explain why the legal reasons, in the context of the case, support the claim of reversible error]. ’ ” 4 Appellant's argument section for her second point on appeal includes only one caselaw citation, “B.
Authorities cited in the passage: Van Deel v. A-Plus Contracting · Appellant cited 'B.M. v. J.S., 775 S.W. 2d 917 (Mo. App. W.P. 1989)', which the court was unable to verify as a