Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Boettcher v. Boettcher
·Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One·US-STATEFiling struckprovisional
The Arizona Court of Appeals grants partial special-action relief in a contempt dispute and addresses a quotation in Father’s filing. The court says neither cited case contains the quoted jurisdictional rule, it cannot find the language in Arizona law, strikes the false quotation, and declines sanctions.
- Court
- Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One
- Date
- 2026-08-14
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Petitioner's filing attributed a jurisdictional quotation to two cases, but neither case contained it and the court could not find it in Arizona law.
- 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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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Boettcher v. Boettcher”, safelegalai.com/tracker/boettcher-v-boettcher (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.