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Innocent v. Meraki Installers, LLC
·District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District·US-STATERegulatory referralprovisional
On 2026-05-27, in Innocent v. Meraki Installers, LLC, District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District affirmed and referred counsel to the Florida Bar over trial-transcript quotations not found in the record. Counsel filed an initial brief using record or transcript quotations not found in the record, quotations that did not appear in the.
- Court
- District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
- Date
- 2026-05-27
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Counsel filed an initial brief using record or transcript quotations not found in the record, quotations that did not appear in the cited source, and multiple nonexistent or hallucinated authorities.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- 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, “Innocent v. Meraki Installers, LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/innocent-v-meraki-installers-llc (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.