Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC
·California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Two·US-STATEFineprovisional
On 2026-06-11, in Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC, the California First District Court of Appeal imposed $6,000 in sanctions payable to the court and referred counsel to the California State Bar. Counsel filed opposition papers using quotations that did not appear in the cited source, multiple nonexistent or hallucinated authorities, and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Two
- Date
- 2026-06-11
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Lipeles Law Group’s opposition brief contained non-existent citations, at least eight fabricated quotations from five cases, and misrepresentations of controlling authority in opposing a stay. The sanctions order was affirmed.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$6,000
- 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, “Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/quinteros-v-harbor-distributing-llc (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.