Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Espinoza v. M&R Construction Group Inc.
·Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County·US-STATEPendingprovisional
On 2026-03-19, Supreme Court of the State of New York scheduled a sanctions hearing after finding that the moving papers relied on a nonexistent Second Department case. Counsel submitted a filing with fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Parrelli v. Temple Beth El of Great Neck.
- Court
- Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County
- Date
- 2026-03-19
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Shorewood relied on Parrelli v. Temple Beth El of Great Neck, a case the court could not find; the citation led to an unrelated Second Department decision.
- 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, “Espinoza v. M&R Construction Group Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/espinoza-v-m-r-const-group-inc (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.