Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Montes v. Suns Legacy Partners LLC
·United States District Court for the District of Arizona·US-FEDRegulatory referralprovisional
On 2026-03-31, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ordered cost reimbursement, remedial AI education, and notice measures after finding counsel’s filed motion contained fake cases and quotations. Counsel submitted a motion with The motion cited fake cases and quotations, including supposed Arizona privilege authorities, that looked real but did not exist as cited.
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- Date
- 2026-03-31
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff's counsel Sheree Wright and Cortney Walters filed at least 18 fictitious citations or fictitious quotations across the complaint, the response to the motion to dismiss, the reply supporting anonymity, and a reply supporting leave to file out of time; counsel later filed errata but did not take responsibility for the filings.
- 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
- 2026-09-08
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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Montes v. Suns Legacy Partners LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/chelsea-montes-v-suns-legacy-partners-llc (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.