Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Morgan v. Jones
·Ohio Court of Appeals, First Appellate District·US-STATEWarningprovisional
The Ohio First District Court of Appeals resolves post-divorce property disputes, denies Victoria Morgan’s request to sanction self-represented Mark Jones, and denies a vexatious-litigant motion. The court says Jones’s two phantom citations bear the hallmarks of AI hallucinations but predate its local AI rule.
- Court
- Ohio Court of Appeals, First Appellate District
- Date
- 2026-06-26
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- generative artificial-intelligence (“AI”) software
- Conduct
- A self-represented appellant cited two phantom cases that the court said bore the hallmarks of generative-AI hallucinations.
- 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, “Morgan v. Jones”, safelegalai.com/tracker/morgan-v-jones (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.