Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Hessert v. Hessert
·District Court of Appeal of Florida, Sixth District·US-STATEPendingprovisional
On 2026-03-20, Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal ordered the petitioner to show cause why sanctions should not issue for a petition with nonexistent cases and inaccurate legal propositions. A self-represented party submitted a petition with fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities.
- Court
- District Court of Appeal of Florida, Sixth District
- Date
- 2026-03-20
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The petition cited thirteen cases: five did not exist and four real cases did not support the asserted propositions.
- Outcome
- Pending
- 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, “Hessert v. Hessert”, safelegalai.com/tracker/hessert-v-hessert-wieland-pulayya (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.