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In re Miller

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas · State appellate courts · TX · 2026-04-23 · 2026 WL 1137938 · No. No. 01-26-00319-CV · concurrence

Fabricated or misquoted citations

The Texas Court of Appeals on 2026-04-23 warned counsel to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions in IN RE PAULA M. MILLER, Relator. Counsel filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and one false case quotation.

Disposition: A concurrence warned that the mandamus petition appeared to contain AI-fabricated hallucinations and that such filings can lead to striking the brief and State Bar reporting.
Recorded conduct: The mandamus petition had attributions and quotations to caselaw that the concurring chief justice said strongly appeared to be AI-fabricated hallucinations with fictitious or misleading citations. — outcome: warning; actor: lawyer
Canonical record: Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules

What the court wrote

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IN RE PAULA M. MILLER, Relator NO. 01-26-00319-CV | Opinion issued April 23, 2026 Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus Panel consists of Chief Justice Adams and Justices Caughey and Morgan. Adams, C. J. , concurring. CONCURRING OPINION Terry Adams Chief Justice *1 I write separately to note that the mandamus petition herehasattributionsandquotationstocaselawwhichstrongly appear to be AI-fabricated hallucinations. Filing a document in our Court with fictitious or misleading citations—whether generated by AI and not checked by a human, or otherwise— is a serious breach of candor that this Court cannot tolerate. See TEX. R. APP. P. 38. 1, 38.

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