Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Falkenstein v. Niles, No. 2:26-cv-07078-SB-PD (C.D. Cal.)
·US District Court, Central District of California·US-FEDPending
In the US District Court for the Central District of California, defence counsel filed materials with false quotations, misplaced propositions and representations not found in the complaint. Judge Blumenfeld ordered counsel to explain the AI certifications, which portions used AI, and what verification steps were taken.
- Court
- US District Court, Central District of California
- Date
- 2026-09-03
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Defendants' filings contained quotations and propositions that the court could not locate in the cited authorities, plus representations about the complaint that were not in the cited paragraph. The court ordered counsel to explain her generative-AI certifications, which portions used AI and how the filings were verified.
- Outcome
- Pending
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-11
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Falkenstein v. Niles, No. 2:26-cv-07078-SB-PD (C.D. Cal.)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/falkenstein-v-niles (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.