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Rodriguez v. Rodriguez
·Sixth District Court of Appeal, State of Florida·US-STATEPendingprovisional
The Florida District Court of Appeal, Sixth District on 2026-04-10 ordered counsel to show cause why sanctions or corrective action should not issue for the defective authorities in Bruno Roberto Rodriguez v. Kathryn Louise Rodriguez. Counsel filed a brief with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Court
- Sixth District Court of Appeal, State of Florida
- Date
- 2026-04-10
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Attorney Karin Gerardin filed a certiorari petition and reply that cited non-existent cases and cited actual cases for inaccurate legal propositions; the court said the filings bore the hallmarks of generative-AI assistance without sufficient guardrails.
- Outcome
- Pending
- 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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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Rodriguez v. Rodriguez”, safelegalai.com/tracker/bruno-roberto-rodriguez-v-kathryn-louise-rodriguez (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.