Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Dec v. Mullin
·United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit·US-FEDWarningprovisional
On 2026-03-30, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit admonished counsel for non-existent citations and a false quotation, but declined monetary sanctions because counsel accepted responsibility and showed contrition. Counsel submitted a brief with false quotations and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Jones v. Kankakee Cnty. Sheriff’s Dep’t and In re Nwaubani.
- Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Date
- 2026-03-30
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Petitioner's opening brief cited two cases that do not exist and recounted an imaginary quotation in the standard-of-review section.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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, “Dec v. Mullin”, safelegalai.com/tracker/danuta-dec-v-homeland-security (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.