Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
James C. Young; Tahnee R. Young v. Happy Money
·U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit·US-FEDOtherprovisional
On 2026-04-08, U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the bankruptcy court’s order limiting one debtor’s advocacy for the other and noted that several cited bankruptcy cases did not exist or support the argument. A self-represented party submitted a motion with fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities, including In re Cherrett and In re Pringle.
- Court
- U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit
- Date
- 2026-04-08
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The motion used fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities, including In re Cherrett and In re Pringle, which the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported.
- 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, “James C. Young; Tahnee R. Young v. Happy Money”, safelegalai.com/tracker/james-c-young-tahnee-r-young-v-happy-money (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.