Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Anthony C. Hill v. Workday, Inc.
·United States District Court for the Northern District of California·US-FEDFineprovisional
The Northern District of California on 2026-04-28 admonished counsel, fined counsel $1,001, required four hours of live CLE, and ordered circulation of the sanction order in Anthony C. Hill v. Workday, Inc. Counsel filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Date
- 2026-04-28
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- CoCounsel
- Conduct
- Counsel filed a submission with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation after using CoCounsel.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$1,001
- 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, “Anthony C. Hill v. Workday, Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/anthony-c-hill-v-workday-inc (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.