Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Jessica Fuller v. Hyde School, et al.
·United States District Court for the District of Maine·US-FEDStrike-off / disbarmentprovisional
The District of Maine on 2026-05-05 struck the defective opposition, ordered counsel to serve the order on the client, complete CLE, and certify firm AI procedures in Jessica Fuller v. Hyde School, et al. Counsel filed a submission with one fabricated case citation, one false case quotation, and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of Maine
- Date
- 2026-05-05
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Claude or ChatGPT
- Conduct
- Counsel filed a submission with one fabricated case citation, one false case quotation, and one mischaracterized case citation after using Claude or ChatGPT.
- Outcome
- Strike-off / disbarment
- 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, “Jessica Fuller v. Hyde School, et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/jessica-fuller-v-hyde-school-et-al (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.