Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Joseph Guy v. AFGE
·United States District Court for the Northern District of California·US-FEDOtherprovisional
On 2026-05-13, in Joseph Guy v. AFGE, the Northern District of California ordered the plaintiff to explain why sanctions should not issue for misquoting a discovery case. Counsel filed a motion using quotations that did not appear in the cited source and nonexistent or hallucinated authorities.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Date
- 2026-05-13
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Claude
- Conduct
- Counsel filed a motion using quotations that did not appear in the cited source and nonexistent or hallucinated authorities.
- 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
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Joseph Guy v. AFGE”, safelegalai.com/tracker/joseph-guy-v-afge (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.