Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Mission Critical Project Services, Inc.
·U.S. Government Accountability Office·US-FEDWarningprovisional
On 2026-03-26, U.S. Government Accountability Office warned the protester that future filings with non-existent authority may result in sanctions after reviewing erroneous AI-like citations. Counsel submitted a filing with fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities. The warning applied to later filings in the same case.
- Court
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Date
- 2026-03-26
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The filing used fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities that the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported for the propositions asserted.
- 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, “Mission Critical Project Services, Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/mission-critical-project-services-inc (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.