Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Daniel Gentry v. Calvin Thompson et al.
·U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana·US-FEDSanctionsprovisional
On 2026-03-20, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana personally sanctioned counsel $1,250 and formally admonished him after he admitted using ChatGPT without checking nine hallucinated cases. Counsel submitted a brief with The brief cited nine hallucinated cases generated through ChatGPT that counsel admitted he had not checked.
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Date
- 2026-03-20
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT
- Conduct
- The brief cited nine hallucinated cases generated through ChatGPT that counsel admitted he had not checked.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- Penalty
- US$1,250
- 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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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Daniel Gentry v. Calvin Thompson et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/daniel-gentry-v-calvin-thompson-et-al (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.