Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Trejo v. Amaya Hernandez
·Appellate Court of Maryland·US-STATEFiling struckprovisional
The Appellate Court of Maryland on 2026-04-29 struck the portions of the appellant’s brief that relied on three nonexistent nunc pro tunc cases in Amparo Trejo v. Miguel Angel Amaya Hernandez. Counsel filed a brief with three fabricated case citations.
- Court
- Appellate Court of Maryland
- Date
- 2026-04-29
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Appellant’s brief cited seven cases, three of which did not exist. The court struck the portions of the brief pertaining to the argument supported by the nonexistent cases.
- Outcome
- Filing struck
- 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
- 2026-09-08
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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Trejo v. Amaya Hernandez”, safelegalai.com/tracker/amparo-trejo-v-miguel-angel-amaya-hernandez (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.