Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Hoagland Family Limited Partnership v. Town of Clear Lake
·Court of Appeals of Indiana·US-STATEWarningprovisional
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirms multiple orders in Hoagland Family Limited Partnership’s sewer-system dispute with Clear Lake. While rejecting one appellate argument, the court says a Fox v. Fox citation and quotation did not exist, likely came from generative AI, and reminds counsel of candor duties.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Indiana
- Date
- 2026-06-22
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- generative artificial intelligence
- Conduct
- Hoagland’s counsel cited and quoted a nonexistent Fox v. Fox source, failed to explain it after the appellee identified the problem, and was reminded of candor duties.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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, “Hoagland Family Limited Partnership v. Town of Clear Lake”, safelegalai.com/tracker/hoagland-family-limited-partnership-v-town-of-clear-lake (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.