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Ascent Management, Inc. v. Shell Oil Company

Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Ohio · State trial courts · OH · 2026-04-30 · No. 2024 CV 03112 · order

The Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Ohio on 2026-04-30 awarded $5,237 against the filing party for expenses caused by fabricated or misrepresented authorities in Ascent Management, Inc. et al v. Shell Oil Company et al. Counsel filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and three mischaracterized case citations, including Perrico v. Verizon.

Disposition: The court awarded Shell and TNE $5,273 in fees and expenses payable by counsel.
Recorded conduct: Attorney Deek admitted AI was used to produce every filing, causing numerous citation errors, including a fake citation in a sanctions motion and additional inaccuracies in opposition. The court awarded $5,273 in fees and expenses payable to Shell and TNE. — outcome: costs order; actor: lawyer; $5,273
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...2323.51 for the sanction requests. On March 13, 2026, the Court held a hearing on Defendants’ motions for sanctions (“the Hearing”) during which Plaintiffs’ counsel Ghassan Jamal Deek (“Attorney Deek”) admitted that artificial intelligence was used to produce every filing he had submitted herein, resulting in numerous citation errors and issues, and that he failed to verify his citations.1 Importantly, and before the Hearing, in his various related filings responsive to Defendants’ sanction motions, Attorney Deek never admitted to using AI, merely argui...

Authorities cited in the passage: Perrico v. Verizon, 2018-Ohio-3994.' Court found no such opinion on search and treated it as a fabri · Kyser v. Summit County Children Services, 2022-Ohio-1207,' but court's search showed the reporter corresponds to a differe · Citation to 'Baker v. Coast to Coast Manpower, LLC, 2020-Ohio-4533' corresponded to a different published decision on search

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Notes: Official copy not obtained 2026-09-08: Montgomery County public docket host timed out/no Clerk host resolved; official trial-court order was not fetched (checked pro.mcohio.org, clerkofcourts.mcohio.org). Re-coded from the document 2026-09-08 (independent second read).

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