Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Regan Wilkes v. Canyons School District
·United States District Court for the District of Utah·US-FEDCosts orderprovisional
The District of Utah on 2026-05-04 imposed Rule 11 sanctions and ordered plaintiffs’ counsel to pay defendants $7,000 for expenses caused by non-existent case law in Regan Wilkes, et al. v. Canyons School District, et al. Counsel filed an opposition with three fabricated case citations and one mischaracterized case citation, including A.S. v. Norwalk Public Schools.
- Court
- United States District Court for the District of Utah
- Date
- 2026-05-04
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiffs’ counsel admitted using AI to polish briefing, which distorted authority and produced nonexistent IDEA cases. The court imposed a $7,000 attorney-fee sanction payable to defendants.
- Outcome
- Costs order
- Penalty
- US$7,000
- 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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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Regan Wilkes v. Canyons School District”, safelegalai.com/tracker/regan-wilkes-et-al-v-canyons-school-district-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.