Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Louis L. Ligon III v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
·United States District Court for the Northern District of California·US-FEDWarningprovisional
The Northern District of California on 2026-04-28 warned the self-represented plaintiff to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions in Louis L. Ligon III v. Meta Platforms, Inc. The self-represented plaintiff filed a reply brief with one mischaracterized case citation.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Date
- 2026-04-28
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Ligon’s pro se response had many case citations used for propositions the cases did not support; the court stated the response contained no hallucinated or fabricated citations but cautioned him about AI-assisted filings.
- 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
- 2026-09-08
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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Louis L. Ligon III v. Meta Platforms, Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/louis-l-ligon-iii-v-meta-platforms-inc (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.