Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Forney v. Township of Cary, North Carolina, No. 5:25-CV-00738-M (E.D.N.C.)
·US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina·US-FEDCosts order
Having warned the same lawyer in a prior action, the chief judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina used inherent authority to order him to pay the Town of Cary's fees for a brief built on a nonexistent citation and misleadingly truncated authority, and referred him to the North Carolina State Bar.
- Court
- US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- Date
- 2026-08-03
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Attorney Lucas Colantonio's response brief relied on a citation to In re S.L.L. that did not exist at the reference given and selectively quoted Armco. He had been warned about citation accuracy in the earlier Forney I action and admitted he did not investigate the citations.
- Outcome
- Costs order
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- North Carolina State Bar: Chief Judge Myers referred counsel to the North Carolina State Bar. No disposition on record. (2026-08-03)
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-03
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Forney v. Township of Cary, North Carolina, No. 5:25-CV-00738-M (E.D.N.C.)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/forney-v-township-of-cary (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.