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Noble v. WMC Mortgage Corp., 2026 IL App (1st) 251168-U
·Appellate Court of Illinois, First District·US-STATEWarning
In Illinois, self-represented litigant Sanja Noble's mortgage appeal brief included a hallucinated citation to Ferguson v. Georges for the standard of review. The Appellate Court found the citation actually led to People v. Mott, declined to strike the brief, disregarded unsupported assertions and affirmed denial of her petition.
- Court
- Appellate Court of Illinois, First District
- Date
- 2026-08-28
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Self-represented appellant Sanja Noble cited Ferguson v. Georges, 389 Ill. App. 3d 543, for the standard of review. The court found the citation led to People v. Mott instead and described it as a hallucinated citation that can occur when AI-generated responses are not verified.
- Outcome
- Warning
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-04
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Noble v. WMC Mortgage Corp., 2026 IL App (1st) 251168-U”, safelegalai.com/tracker/noble-v-wmc-mortgage (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.