Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Ifeoma Delliane Chinedu Obi v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. (1)
·U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois·US-FEDSanctionsprovisional
On 2026-04-09, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois struck the motion and imposed a $4,999 sanction for repeated AI-generated fake cases, quotations, and statements of law and fact. A self-represented party submitted a complaint with 13 false quotations and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Marshall v. Marshall and Andrade v. Arby Concessions.
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Date
- 2026-04-09
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The complaint used 13 false quotations and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Marshall v. Marshall and Andrade v. Arby Concessions, which the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- Penalty
- US$4,999
- 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, “Ifeoma Delliane Chinedu Obi v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. (1)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/ifeoma-delliane-chinedu-obi-v-cook-county-illinois-et-al-1 (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.