Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Richard Paul Smith v. Verra Mobility Corporation et al.
·United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida·US-FEDOtherprovisional
The Middle District of Florida on 2026-05-01 ordered counsel to notify the client about mis-cited and nonexistent cases and required a client-signed certification in Richard Paul Smith v. Verra Mobility Corporation et al. Counsel filed a motion with three fabricated case citations and one mischaracterized case citation, including Morgulis v. BusPatrol Am.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Date
- 2026-05-01
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT
- Conduct
- Counsel filed a motion with three fabricated case citations and one mischaracterized case citation, including Morgulis v. BusPatrol Am and Gonzalez v. City of Coral Gables after using ChatGPT.
- Outcome
- Other
- 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
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Richard Paul Smith v. Verra Mobility Corporation et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/richard-paul-smith-v-verra-mobility-corporation-et-al (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.