Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Adams v. Matrix Providers, No. 1:23-cv-01996 (D. Colo.)
·US District Court for the District of Colorado·US-FEDFine
The US District Court for the District of Colorado fined counsel Ms Pearson USD 1,000 after her brief cited a nonexistent case and attributed a quotation to Justice Scalia from an opinion dated 2020, four years after his death. Judge Sweeney's order is on CourtListener RECAP; the available summary does not record whether counsel admitted using generative AI.
- Court
- US District Court for the District of Colorado
- Date
- 2026-08-27
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Counsel Ms Pearson filed a brief containing a phantom citation and a quotation attributed to Justice Scalia from a 2020 opinion, although Justice Scalia died in 2016.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$1,000
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-03
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Adams v. Matrix Providers, No. 1:23-cv-01996 (D. Colo.)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/adams-v-matrix-providers (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.