Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Jane Doe, et al. v. Lincoln Consolidated Schools, et al.
·U.S. 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
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Date
- 2026-03-23
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The brief used multiple fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Doe v. Univ. of Mich., No. 18-11914, which the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported.
- 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
Primary sources for this incident
Related regulation records for this incident
No related regulation record has been linked to this incident yet.
Similar incidents on the record
- Full Standard Properties v. SJ 6070, No. 5:25-cv-09451 (N.D. Cal.)2026-08-20 · US District Court for the Northern District of California · Costs orderIn the US District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Freeman discharged an order to show cause against plaintiff's counsel who had cited nonexistent cases, after counsel reimbursed USD 14,500 in fees…
- Forney v. Township of Cary, North Carolina, No. 5:25-CV-00738-M (E.D.N.C.)2026-08-03 · US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina · Costs orderHaving warned the same lawyer in a prior action, the chief judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina used inherent authority to order him to pay the Town of Cary's fees for a brief built…
- Booker v. The Kroger Co., No. 1:26-cv-02006-SDG (N.D. Ga.)2026-08-28 · US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division · FineThe US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia fined employment plaintiff's lawyer Christopher Johnson USD 8,000, payable to the court's sanctions fund, for citing four nonexistent or misrepresented authorit…
- Adams v. Matrix Providers, No. 1:23-cv-01996 (D. Colo.)2026-08-27 · US District Court for the District of Colorado · FineThe US District Court for the District of Colorado fined counsel Ms Pearson USD 1,000 after her brief cited a nonexistent case and attributed a quotation to Justice Scalia from an opinion dated 2020, four years after hi…
Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Jane Doe, et al. v. Lincoln Consolidated Schools, et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/jane-doe-et-al-v-lincoln-consolidated-schools-et-al (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.