Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Juandel Pena and Martina Ruiz v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
·United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida·US-FEDSanctionsprovisional
Southern District of Florida on 2026-02-19 in Juandel Pena and Martina Ruiz v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. found the self-represented parties' reply misread Holden and cited a nonexistent page beyond the end of the Eleventh Circuit opinion. The magistrate judge recommended denying the renewed preliminary-injunction motion and warned that further false AI citations could require a sanctions hearing.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Date
- 2026-02-19
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The self-represented parties' reply misread Holden and cited a nonexistent page beyond the end of the Eleventh Circuit opinion.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- 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, “Juandel Pena and Martina Ruiz v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/juandel-pena-and-martina-ruiz-v-wells-fargo-bank-n-a (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.