Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
In re: Kathleen A Rabon
On 2026-04-03, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut denied the debtor’s contract arguments and ordered counsel to show cause separately under Bankruptcy Rule 9011 for apparently false citations. Counsel submitted a motion with 7 false quotations. The response requirement preceded any sanction decision.
- Court
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut
- Date
- 2026-04-03
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The motion used 7 false quotations that the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported for the propositions asserted.
- 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, “In re: Kathleen A Rabon”, safelegalai.com/tracker/in-re-kathleen-a-rabon (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.