Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Nisland Asset Investment, LLC v. Carissa Ann Gericke
·Iowa Court of Appeals·US-STATEOtherprovisional
The Iowa Court of Appeals on 2026-04-29 deemed issues waived where the appellant relied on nonexistent or irrelevant authorities instead of valid supporting law in Nisland Asset Investment, LLC v. Carissa Ann Gericke. The self-represented appellant filed a brief with two fabricated case citations and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Court
- Iowa Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-04-29
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Gericke’s pro se brief repeatedly cited two nonexistent cases and one existing case for an unrelated proposition. The court stated she likely misused an artificial-intelligence tool but imposed no sanction.
- Outcome
- Other
- 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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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Nisland Asset Investment, LLC v. Carissa Ann Gericke”, safelegalai.com/tracker/nisland-asset-investment-llc-v-carissa-ann-gericke (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.