Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Donaghy v. Zoning Board of Review of the Town of North Kingstown
·Rhode Island Superior Court·US-STATEPendingprovisional
Rhode Island Superior Court on 2026-03-12 found counsel's appellate brief contained two citation defects, including Smithfield v. Fanning and Duffy v. Milder, involving nonexistent authorities, fabricated or misattributed quotations. The court remanded the zoning appeal to the board for a continued public hearing and cautioned counsel about likely AI-generated citations.
- Court
- Rhode Island Superior Court
- Date
- 2026-03-12
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Appellant's briefing quoted nonexistent law from two Rhode Island cases that exist but do not discuss the propositions asserted.
- 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
- 2026-09-08
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Donaghy v. Zoning Board of Review of the Town of North Kingstown”, safelegalai.com/tracker/donaghy-v-zoning-bd-of-review-of-the-town-of-north-kingstown (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.