Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Rasheem Carter v. UZGlobal LLC
·United States District Court for the District of New Mexico·US-FEDRegulatory referralprovisional
The District of New Mexico on 2026-05-01 fined counsel $1,000 payable to the clerk, ordered bar reporting, required proof of AI CLE, and barred passing costs to clients in Rasheem Carter, et al. v. UZGlobal LLC, et al. Counsel filed a brief with four fabricated case citations.
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
- Date
- 2026-05-01
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Counsel Scherr conceded that sixteen fake cases across a response and two motions to compel were likely hallucinated by AI. The court ordered self-reporting to Texas and New Mexico disciplinary authorities and imposed a $1,000 fine.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- Penalty
- US$1,000
- 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, “Rasheem Carter v. UZGlobal LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/rasheem-carter-et-al-v-uzglobal-llc-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.