Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Gully v Varghese
·Supreme Court of New York·US-STATEOtherprovisional
On 2026-05-12, in Gully v Varghese, Supreme Court of New York struck the self-represented plaintiff's reply submission because its case citations could not be located. A self-represented litigant filed opposition papers using nonexistent or hallucinated authorities. The document links the problem to GAI.
- Court
- Supreme Court of New York
- Date
- 2026-05-12
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- GAI
- Conduct
- A self-represented litigant filed opposition papers using nonexistent or hallucinated authorities.
- 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, “Gully v Varghese”, safelegalai.com/tracker/gully-v-varghese (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.