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Reaves Law Firm, PLLC v. Baker Donelson
·United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee·US-FEDRegulatory referralprovisional
On 2026-06-02, in Reaves Law Firm, PLLC v. Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, et al, the Western District of Tennessee ordered Reaves Law Firm to pay costs for improper citations and directed counsel to send the order to professional regulators. Counsel cited Press v. Vanderbilt University even though the court found the authority did not exist.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
- Date
- 2026-06-02
- Who used the AI
- Firm
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Reaves Law Firm filings contained non-existent cases, false quotations, and unsupported holdings despite notice of suspected generative-AI misuse. The court ordered fee reimbursement in an amount to be determined and referred the order to the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- 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
- 2026-09-08
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Reaves Law Firm, PLLC v. Baker Donelson”, safelegalai.com/tracker/reaves-law-firm-pllc-v-baker-donelson-bearman-caldwell-berkowitz-pc-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.