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In re Domestic Partnership of Torres Campos and Munoz
·Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One·US-STATERegulatory referralprovisional
California Court of Appeal on 2026-03-05 found counsel's brief contained two citation defects, including 34 Cal.3d 926, Marriage of Twigg and In re Marriage of Teegarden, involving nonexistent authorities, fabricated or misattributed quotations. The court ordered counsel to pay $5,000 for the defective authorities and referred the matter for discipline and complete corrective CLE.
- Court
- Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One
- Date
- 2026-03-05
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Respondent's counsel cited the nonexistent Twigg and Teegarden cases in superior court filings and again in appellate filings, and acknowledged using online resources including AI.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- Penalty
- US$5,000
- 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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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “In re Domestic Partnership of Torres Campos and Munoz”, safelegalai.com/tracker/joan-pablo-torres-campos-v-leslie-ann-munoz (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.