Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Prisbrey v. Prisbrey
·Utah Court of Appeals·US-STATEOtherprovisional
On 2026-03-19, Utah Court of Appeals reversed and remanded for a new trial while criticizing counsel’s incorrect Utah citations, misquotations, and authorities made out of whole cloth. Counsel submitted an appellate brief with seven fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities.
- Court
- Utah Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-03-19
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The appellate brief used seven fabricated or nonexistent authorities and mischaracterized authorities that the court found nonexistent, misquoted, or unsupported for the propositions asserted.
- 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
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Prisbrey v. Prisbrey”, safelegalai.com/tracker/prisbrey-v-prisbrey (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.