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In the Interest of S.M.T. and S.J.T.
·Texas Court of Appeals, Fourteenth District·US-STATESanctionsprovisional
The Fourteenth Court of Appeals affirms a child-custody modification judgment and sanctions Father’s lawyer. The court finds fabricated quotations from Harrison and Swim, unsupported assertions from Lenz and A.S., assumes AI hallucination rather than deliberate deception, and orders three additional hours of AI-focused CLE.
- Court
- Texas Court of Appeals, Fourteenth District
- Date
- 2026-07-30
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Appellant's lawyer signed a brief with fabricated quotations from real cases and asserted propositions not found in cited authorities.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- 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 the Interest of S.M.T. and S.J.T.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/in-the-interest-of-s-m-t-and-s-j-t (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.