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Hulse-Gibson v. Hulse
·District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District·US-STATEWarningprovisional
The Florida Second District Court of Appeal affirms orders against Cynthia Hulse-Gibson without comment. The panel separately cautions the self-represented appellant that her briefs contained mismatches among propositions, case names and citations, and warns that unverified generative-AI legal research can expose filers to sanctions.
- Court
- District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
- Date
- 2026-07-08
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- generative AI
- Conduct
- A self-represented appellant filed briefs with mismatches among legal propositions, case names and reporter citations after apparent generative-AI use.
- 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, “Hulse-Gibson v. Hulse”, safelegalai.com/tracker/hulse-gibson-v-hulse (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.