Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Almeida Porfirio v. Mullin
·United States District Court for the District of Columbia·US-FEDNoted, no consequenceprovisional
The District of Columbia district court transfers Catarina Almeida Porfirio’s visa case to the Northern District of Texas. The court says plaintiff’s opposition brief contains nonexistent quotations, nonexistent cases and misstatements of law bearing the hallmarks of reliance on an AI tool, but leaves any inquiry to the transferee court.
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Date
- 2026-07-23
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff’s opposition to transfer included nonexistent quotations and cases and misstated case law. The court made no finding and opened no inquiry because it transferred the case.
- Outcome
- Noted, no consequence
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Almeida Porfirio v. Mullin”, safelegalai.com/tracker/almeida-porfirio-v-mullin (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.