Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Colbert v. County of Riverside
·United States District Court for the Central District of California·US-FEDWarningprovisional
On 2026-03-31, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California admonished counsel after finding a false statutory quotation and no supporting case, federal or state, for the quoted language. Counsel submitted an opposition brief with multiple nonexistent or misstated legal provisions, false quotations and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Mata v. Avianca, Inc.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Central District of California
- Date
- 2026-03-31
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff's opposition quoted purported language from California Government Code § 845.4 that the court could not locate in that section, any other California Government Code section, or any federal or state case.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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, “Colbert v. County of Riverside”, safelegalai.com/tracker/leonard-colbert-v-county-of-riverside (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.