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Johnny Fuselier v. John S. Riscassi

United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi · Federal district courts · MS · · 2013 WL 12173926 · No. 1:25-cv-00268-HSO-BWR · opinion

Fabricated or misquoted citations

The Southern District of Mississippi on 2026-05-01 admonished counsel for unverified or fabricated authorities and cautioned against repeating the citation misconduct in Johnny Fuselier v. John S. Riscassi. Counsel filed a brief with one fabricated case citation, one false case quotation, and one mischaracterized case citation, including Rodriguez v. It’s Just Lunch.

Disposition
The court admonished counsel for unverified or fabricated authorities and cautioned against repeating the citation misconduct.
Recorded conduct
Counsel filed a brief with one fabricated case citation, one false case quotation, and one mischaracterized case citation, including Rodriguez v. It’s Just Lunch after using Fastcase; Google AI. — outcome: warning; actor: lawyer
Canonical record
Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

What the court wrote

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Mississippi, 2025 WL 3691876, at *3-5 (discussing an attorney’s obligations under Rule 11 and their duty to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the law and facts of the case). Based on the instances outlined above, Mr. Rice is directed to SHOW CAUSE on or before May 15, 2026, why the Court should not impose sanctions for citing an apparently fictitious case and misrepresenting the quotations from a Supreme Court case. In addition to explaining his actions, Mr. Rice is ORDERED to do all the following in his response: (1) Disclose the extent to which he used artificial intelligence (“AI”) in conducting legal research; (2) Disclose the extent to which he used AI to draft his Response [20] and all other briefs submitted in this case;

Authorities cited in the passage: Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 · Plaintiff cited 'Rodriguez v. It’s Just Lunch, Int’l, 2013 WL 12173926 (5th Cir. 2013)', which the Court found appears fictitio

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