Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Coleman v. Nexo Capital Inc.
·United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana·US-FEDWarningprovisional
On 2026-03-31, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana granted summary judgment to the defendant and warned the self-represented plaintiffs that their contract-voiding authorities were inaccurate. A self-represented party submitted a motion with nonexistent or misstated legal provisions and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Kramer v. Trans-Lux Corp., 24 F.3d 1001 and Indiana Code § 23-2-1-2.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- Date
- 2026-03-31
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The pro se plaintiffs cited a repealed Indiana Code provision and a nonexistent Seventh Circuit Kramer v. Trans-Lux Corp. decision; the court found it unclear whether the citations were fabricated or erroneous.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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, “Coleman v. Nexo Capital Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/elbert-coleman-iii-elbert-coleman-iv-v-nexo-capital-inc (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.