Incident Tracker / United States (state)
In re Marriage of Muriel and Farris
·Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two·US-STATECosts orderprovisional
The Washington Court of Appeals affirms a parenting plan and awards Rebekah Muriel fees for responding to Jonathan Farris’s response brief. The court says the brief twice cited nonexistent Marriage of Sanjuan, surmises AI-assisted drafting, deems the filing frivolous, and sets the fee amount for the commissioner.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two
- Date
- 2026-08-18
- Who used the AI
- Other
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Response brief twice cited nonexistent Marriage of Sanjuan; the court surmised AI-assisted drafting and deemed the filing frivolous.
- Outcome
- Costs order
- 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 Marriage of Muriel and Farris”, safelegalai.com/tracker/in-re-marriage-of-muriel-and-farris (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.