Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
In re BFI Waste Systems of Tennessee (City of Murfreesboro v. BFI), No. 3:22-cv-00605 (M.D. Tenn.)
·US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division·US-FEDSanctions
The US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee publicly reprimanded attorney Louis Ringger III and ordered him to pay USD 1,500 to the Clerk after a brief in landfill litigation quoted cases that did not say what was claimed. The court kept the sanction low because counsel accepted responsibility and had already imposed firm-wide verification measures.
- Court
- US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division
- Date
- 2026-08-06
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- A plaintiff's filing (Doc. 321) in long-running landfill litigation contained hallucinated quotations and misleading or nonexistent citations, attributed to a junior lawyer's use of AI. Supervising attorney Louis W. Ringger III responded on behalf of all lawyers involved, accepted responsibility and adopted firm-wide remedial measures.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- Penalty
- US$1,500
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-03
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “In re BFI Waste Systems of Tennessee (City of Murfreesboro v. BFI), No. 3:22-cv-00605 (M.D. Tenn.)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/in-re-bfi-waste-systems (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.