Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Grajales v. Santander Consumer USA Inc.
·United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina·US-FEDFineprovisional
On 2026-06-02, in Anthony Josue Grajales v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., et al, the Middle District of North Carolina sanctioned the plaintiff $120, stayed the case until payment, and required copies of cited authorities with future filings. A self-represented litigant filed a response using quotations that did not appear in the cited source, numerous nonexistent or hallucinated authorities, and.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
- Date
- 2026-06-02
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The pro se plaintiff repeatedly filed false citations; defendants identified eight, and the court counted 115 false citations. The court imposed a $120 court penalty and citation-copy requirements.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$120
- 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, “Grajales v. Santander Consumer USA Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/anthony-josue-grajales-v-santander-consumer-usa-inc-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.