Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Doe 1, et al. v. Shirley Lai, et al.
·United States District Court for the Central District of California·US-FEDPendingprovisional
Central District of California on 2026-02-17 found defense counsel attributed a quotation to Headley that the court could not locate and cited Dann for a proposition the court could not find. The court denied the motion to dismiss, granted judicial notice, and ordered defense counsel to produce authorities or explain why sanctions should not issue.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Central District of California
- Date
- 2026-02-17
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Lai’s motion contained false quotations and citations, including quotations from Headley and propositions from Dann that were not in the cited cases.
- Outcome
- Pending
- 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, “Doe 1, et al. v. Shirley Lai, et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/doe-1-et-al-v-shirley-lai-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.