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Gragston v. Amazon LLC
·United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio·US-FEDWarningprovisional
The Southern District of Ohio dismisses Gragston’s amended employment complaint but permits a motion for leave to amend. A footnote identifies a purported Sixth Circuit hostile-work-environment citation as AI-hallucinated and formally warns that future reliance may bring monetary sanctions or dismissal with prejudice.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- Date
- 2026-07-29
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Self-represented plaintiff cited a purported Sixth Circuit case with mismatched name, docket number, subject matter, and nonexistent Westlaw citation.
- 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, “Gragston v. Amazon LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/gragston-v-amazon-llc (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.