Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
DSME Construction Co., Ltd.
·Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals·US-FEDOtherprovisional
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals on 2026-03-13 in DSME Construction Co., Ltd. found counsel's surreply contained five citation defects involving nonexistent authorities, mischaracterized authority, incorrect statutory or rule text. The court struck the defective filing and warned counsel to verify cited authorities before filing again.
- Court
- Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
- Date
- 2026-03-13
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Counsel's surreply contained five citation defects involving nonexistent authorities, mischaracterized authority, incorrect statutory or rule text.
- 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, “DSME Construction Co., Ltd.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/dsme-construction-co-ltd (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.