Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Barber v. Morawa
·Michigan Court of Appeals·US-STATERegulatory referralprovisional
The Michigan Court of Appeals affirms denial of Joyce Barber’s new-trial motion but sanctions her counsel for AI-related citation failures. The court holds that repeated fabricated and unsupported authorities violated Michigan court rules, remands to determine defendant’s actual damages and expenses, and refers counsel for possible investigation.
- Court
- Michigan Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-06-17
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff’s counsel cited fabricated authority in a protective-order motion, again in a new-trial motion, and again in the appellate brief; a notice of correction prepared with AI still contained unsupported substitutes. The court remanded for damages and forwarded the opinion to the Attorney Grievance Commission.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- 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, “Barber v. Morawa”, safelegalai.com/tracker/barber-v-morawa (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.