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Ebony Sherisse Lucas v. Charles W. Scharf, et al.
·United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina·US-FEDPendingprovisional
Western District of North Carolina on 2026-02-24 in Ebony Sherisse Lucas v. Charles W. Scharf, et al. found the self-represented party's brief contained 13 citation defects involving nonexistent authorities, mischaracterized authority, incorrect statutory or rule text. The court ordered the self-represented party to show cause why sanctions, striking, or referral should not issue for the defective authorities.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
- Date
- 2026-02-24
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Lucas’s response and surreply contained no less than twelve wholly fraudulent citations; her reply cited two more fake cases and one real case that did not support the asserted proposition.
- 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, “Ebony Sherisse Lucas v. Charles W. Scharf, et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/ebony-sherisse-lucas-v-charles-w-scharf-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.