Incident Tracker / United States (state)
In the Interest of W.G., Minor Child
·Iowa Court of Appeals·US-STATEOtherprovisional
On 2026-04-01, Iowa Court of Appeals struck the fabricated-citation portions of the petition on appeal, declined to dismiss the appeal, and considered only arguments untainted by the false authorities. A self-represented party submitted an appellate brief with fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities.
- Court
- Iowa Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-04-01
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Perplexity
- Conduct
- The appellate brief used fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities that the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported for the propositions asserted.
- Outcome
- Other
- 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 W.G., Minor Child”, safelegalai.com/tracker/in-the-interest-of-w-g-minor-child (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.