Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Disruptive Resources, LLC v. Ballistic Barrier Products Inc., No. 1:24-cv-00321-JCG (D. Del.)
·US District Court for the District of Delaware (Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves, sitting by designation)·US-FEDWarning
In a patent case in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, plaintiff's counsel promptly disclosed that a Strongsuit-assisted claim-construction brief contained errors. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves discharged the show-cause order without Rule 11 sanctions, distinguishing lawyers who defend hallucinations from those who self-report, while warning that future AI mistakes in the case would be sanctioned.
- Court
- US District Court for the District of Delaware (Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves, sitting by designation)
- Date
- 2026-08-20
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Strongsuit
- Conduct
- Plaintiff's counsel self-disclosed that a joint claim-construction brief prepared with the AI tool Strongsuit, used to generate an outline and pull deposition statements, contained multiple AI-induced errors, including a claim-construction position contrary to his own client's.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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, “Disruptive Resources, LLC v. Ballistic Barrier Products Inc., No. 1:24-cv-00321-JCG (D. Del.)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/disruptive-resources-v-ballistic-barrier (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.