Incident Tracker / United States (state)
First Community Credit Union v. Smith
·Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV·US-STATEWarningprovisional
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirms in a credit-union dispute and denies a frivolous-appeal fee request. A footnote says Ashley Smith’s briefs contain false legal citations, warns against repetition, and cautions that generative AI can hallucinate nonexistent cases or misreport holdings.
- Court
- Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV
- Date
- 2026-07-30
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Self-represented appellant filed briefs with false legal citations, including misrepresented case and statutory authorities and irrelevant authorities.
- 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, “First Community Credit Union v. Smith”, safelegalai.com/tracker/first-community-credit-union-v-smith (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.