Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Brown v. Real Estate Capital of America, LLC
·Supreme Court of New York, New York County·US-STATENoted, no consequenceprovisional
The New York Supreme Court decides a broker-dispute dismissal motion and denies sanctions requested on reply. The court says plaintiffs attributed a quotation to a case where it did not appear, but even treating it as an AI fabrication did not warrant a monetary sanction.
- Court
- Supreme Court of New York, New York County
- Date
- 2026-08-07
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiffs' opposition attributed a quotation to a cited case that the court says did not contain it.
- Outcome
- Noted, no consequence
- 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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