Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
McCormick v. Texakoma Financial
·United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas·US-FEDSanctionsprovisional
On 2026-06-11, in McCormick v. Texakoma Financial, the Eastern District of Texas publicly reprimanded plaintiff's counsel, imposed $6,000 in sanctions, ordered firmwide citation review, and required AI-focused CLE. Counsel filed a response using quotations that did not appear in the cited source, nonexistent or hallucinated authorities, and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- Date
- 2026-06-11
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- GAI
- Conduct
- Counsel filed a response using quotations that did not appear in the cited source, nonexistent or hallucinated authorities, and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- Penalty
- US$6,000
- 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, “McCormick v. Texakoma Financial”, safelegalai.com/tracker/mccormick-v-texakoma-financial (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.