Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Kristina Crist v. Roy Chris West
·United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma·US-FEDFineprovisional
The Western District of Oklahoma on 2026-05-07 publicly reprimanded counsel, fined counsel $250, and ordered counsel to notify the client of the sanctions order in Kristina Crist v. Roy Chris West, et al. Counsel filed a brief with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
- Date
- 2026-05-07
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Attorney Rachel Bussett used a trusted legal vendor’s AI tool and filed fake or misleading authorities without adequate verification. The court imposed a $250 sanction payable to the Clerk.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$250
- 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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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Kristina Crist v. Roy Chris West”, safelegalai.com/tracker/kristina-crist-v-roy-chris-west-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.