Courts on AI / Fabricated or misquoted citations
IN RE PAULA M. MILLER, Relator
Texas Court of Appeals · State appellate courts · TX · · 2026 WL 1137938 · No. 01-26-00319-CV · concurrence
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
- The court warned counsel to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions.
- Recorded conduct
- Counsel filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and one false case quotation. — 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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