Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Hardy v. Genesee County Community Action Resource Department, et al. (2)
·U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan·US-FEDStrike-off / disbarmentprovisional
On 2026-04-06, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan struck the motion to consolidate and gave the plaintiff a final warning after he repeated fake quotations following an earlier AI-citation sanction order. A self-represented party submitted a motion with false quotations, including Berndt v. Tennessee does not appear in and United States v. Frazier does not appear in.
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Date
- 2026-04-06
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The motion used false quotations, including Berndt v. Tennessee does not appear in and United States v. Frazier does not appear in, which the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported.
- Outcome
- Strike-off / disbarment
- 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, “Hardy v. Genesee County Community Action Resource Department, et al. (2)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/hardy-v-genesee-county-community-action-resource-department-et-al-2 (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.