Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Miller v. Regions Bank
·United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama·US-FEDSuspensionprovisional
On 2026-05-21, in Jackie L. Miller v. Regions Bank, the Northern District of Alabama disqualified counsel from the case and from appearing before the judge for six months and referred the order to bar authorities. Counsel submitted a filing using quotations that did not appear in the cited source.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Date
- 2026-05-21
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT
- Conduct
- Attorney H. Gregory Harp filed four false quotations and then deleted his ChatGPT account after being ordered to produce his ChatGPT history. The court inferred ChatGPT generated the false quotations and imposed suspension, disqualification, reprimand, and notice to disciplinary authorities.
- Outcome
- Suspension
- 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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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Miller v. Regions Bank”, safelegalai.com/tracker/jackie-l-miller-v-regions-bank (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.