Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Hardy v. Whitaker
·United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan·US-FEDSanctionsprovisional
Eastern District of Michigan on 2026-03-02 found the self-represented party's brief contained four citation defects, including Patel v. City of Ferndale, 308 F.3d 511, 517 (6th Cir. 2002), Thompson v. City of Lebanon, 813 F.3d.... The court adopted the report and recommendation, dismissed the amended complaint with prejudice, and entered a filing injunction.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Date
- 2026-03-02
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Hardy's summary-judgment motion included fake citations to Patel, Thompson, Spurlock, and Wesley, among other repetitive and improper filings.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- 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. Whitaker”, safelegalai.com/tracker/hardy-v-whitaker (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.