Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Jane Doe v. Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners
·United States District Court for the District of Maryland·US-FEDOtherprovisional
The District of Maryland on 2026-04-29 granted defendants’ summary-judgment motion in part, denied plaintiff’s summary-judgment motion, and refused to rely on a fabricated case in Jane Doe v. Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners. Counsel filed a reply brief with one fabricated case citation.
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Date
- 2026-05-06
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff’s counsel used a fabricated quotation and citation to Nita H. v. Frederick County Public Schools. The court noted it had cause to decline considering the proposition but found the issue moot and imposed no sanction.
- 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
- 2026-09-08
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Jane Doe v. Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners”, safelegalai.com/tracker/jane-doe-v-baltimore-city-board-of-school-commissioners (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.