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Heriberto Perez-Castillo v. Todd W. Blanche
·United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit·US-FEDRegulatory referralprovisional
On 2026-06-01, in Heriberto Perez-Castillo v. Todd W. Blanche, the Seventh Circuit sanctioned counsel for appellate expenses, admonished him, and referred the matter for possible discipline. Counsel filed an opening brief using record or transcript quotations not found in the record, quotations that did not appear in the cited source, and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Date
- 2026-06-01
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT
- Conduct
- Counsel filed an opening brief using record or transcript quotations not found in the record, quotations that did not appear in the cited source, and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- Penalty
- US$4,997
- 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, “Heriberto Perez-Castillo v. Todd W. Blanche”, safelegalai.com/tracker/heriberto-perez-castillo-v-todd-w-blanche (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.