Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
David Martin v. ODS Community Dental Insurance et al.
·United States District Court for the District of Oregon·US-FEDOtherprovisional
District of Oregon on 2026-02-18 in David Martin v. ODS Community Dental Insurance et al. found the self-represented party's motion quoted language not found in Zschernig and gave incomplete citations to Hartman, Estelle, and Glucksberg. The court denied the temporary-restraining-order motion and warned the self-represented plaintiff against further inaccurate or incomplete citations.
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of Oregon
- Date
- 2026-02-18
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The self-represented party's motion quoted language not found in Zschernig and gave incomplete citations to Hartman, Estelle, and Glucksberg.
- Outcome
- Other
- 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
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “David Martin v. ODS Community Dental Insurance et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/david-martin-v-ods-community-dental-insurance-et-al (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.