Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Evgeny Yaroshevsky v. Karlin et al.
·U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York·US-FEDCosts orderprovisional
On 2026-03-31, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York recommended an adverse fee award after finding Rule 11 safe-harbor compliance and repeated nonexistent or misrepresented AI-generated authorities. A self-represented party submitted a complaint with multiple false quotations, fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities, including Ramirez v. Humala, 24-CV-242.
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Date
- 2026-03-31
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Gemini
- Conduct
- The complaint used multiple false quotations, fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities, including Ramirez v. Humala, 24-CV-242, which the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported.
- Outcome
- Costs order
- 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, “Evgeny Yaroshevsky v. Karlin et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/evgeny-yaroshevsky-v-karlin-et-al (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.