Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC
·Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District·US-STATERegulatory referralprovisional
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
- Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District
- Date
- 2026-06-11
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT
- Conduct
- 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.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- Penalty
- US$6,000
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/quinteros-v-harbor-distributing-llc (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.