Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Henry County Schools v. Grant
·Court of Appeals of Georgia·US-STATEOtherprovisional
On 2026-06-10, in Henry County Schools et al. v. Grant et al, Court of Appeals of Georgia vacated the order denying dismissal of the Title VII claims and remanded for reconsideration using proper standards and real case law. The trial court's order relied on at least one nonexistent or hallucinated authority and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Georgia
- Date
- 2026-06-10
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiffs’ attorney drafted a proposed order that the trial court entered; it misquoted cases, ignored binding precedent, and relied on at least one hallucinated case. The appellate court vacated the affected order and remanded.
- 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, “Henry County Schools v. Grant”, safelegalai.com/tracker/henry-county-schools-et-al-v-grant-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.