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Forest Ridge Townhomes Corporation of Greensboro v. Heag Pain Management Center et al.
·North Carolina Court of Appeals·US-STATEOtherprovisional
On 2026-03-18, North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed the surplus-funds ruling and chastised counsel for relying on Perplexity.AI material without adequately checking irrelevant authorities. Counsel submitted a motion with fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Benjamin v. Costco Wholesale Corp. The court resolved the merits while identifying the defective legal research.
- Court
- North Carolina Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-03-18
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Perplexity.AI
- Conduct
- The motion used fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Benjamin v. Costco Wholesale Corp, which the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported.
- Outcome
- Other
- 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, “Forest Ridge Townhomes Corporation of Greensboro v. Heag Pain Management Center et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/forest-ridge-townhomes-corporation-of-greensboro-v-heag-pain-management-center-e (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.