Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Appeal of Endure Industries, Inc.
·Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals·US-FEDFiling struckprovisional
On 2026-03-23, Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals the Board granted dismissal and warned the self-represented contractor that future citations to non-existent authority may lead to sanctions. A self-represented party submitted a brief with fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities, including LLC v. United States and Corp. v. United States.
- Court
- Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
- Date
- 2026-03-23
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Endure acknowledged using a generative AI program and cited one nonexistent decision, BMS, Inc. v. United States, plus other decisions that did not support the cited propositions.
- Outcome
- Filing struck
- 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, “Appeal of Endure Industries, Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/endure-industries-inc-v-defense-health-agency (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.