Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Doe v. Lincoln Consolidated Schools
·United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan·US-FEDCosts orderprovisional
On 2026-03-23, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted summary judgment in part and ordered plaintiffs’ counsel’s firm to reimburse the defense costs of researching the hallucinated case. Counsel submitted a brief with multiple fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Doe v. Univ. of Mich., No. 18-11914.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Date
- 2026-03-23
- Who used the AI
- Firm
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiffs' brief used a Frankenstein citation to a non-existent authority for a Michigan constitutional proposition, which appeared to be an AI hallucination.
- Outcome
- Costs order
- 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, “Doe v. Lincoln Consolidated Schools”, safelegalai.com/tracker/jane-doe-et-al-v-lincoln-consolidated-schools-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.