Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Chapman v. City of Priceville, No. 5:26-cv-84-HDM (N.D. Ala.)
·US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama·US-FEDSanctions
The US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, the same district that sanctioned Butler Snow in Johnson v. Dunn, publicly reprimanded civil-rights plaintiff's lawyer Scott Morro for a brief containing two fabricated cases and seven invented quotations. He must serve the order on every judge before whom he appears, and the court directed publication as a warning.
- Court
- US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Date
- 2026-08-12
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Attorney Scott Thomas Morro's opposition brief cited two fabricated cases, attributed quotations to seven real cases that do not contain them, and misrepresented the law. His subsequent Notice of Correction fixed only one item. The court ordered him to explain how the citations were generated and warned that non-compliance would lead to an Alabama State Bar referral.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-03
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Chapman v. City of Priceville, No. 5:26-cv-84-HDM (N.D. Ala.)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/chapman-v-city-of-priceville (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.