Incident Tracker / United States (state)
K.C. v. D.R.
·Texas Court of Appeals·US-STATEOtherprovisional
The Texas Court of Appeals on 2026-04-30 affirmed the family-violence protective order after disregarding unsupported arguments based on false quotations and nonexistent cases in K.C. v. D.R. The self-represented party filed a submission with three fabricated case citations, one false case quotation, and two mischaracterized case citations.
- Court
- Texas Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-04-30
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The self-represented party filed a submission with three fabricated case citations, one false case quotation, and two mischaracterized case citations.
- 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, “K.C. v. D.R.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/k-c-v-d-r (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.