Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Rivard v. Vermont Department of Corrections
·Superior Court of Vermont, Windham Unit·US-STATESanctionsprovisional
The Vermont Superior Court grants Brattleboro’s sanctions motion against Jeffrey Rivard and imposes a civil-division prefiling injunction. The order cites Rivard’s prior non-existent authorities, mismatched Vermont Reports citations, spurious record quotations, and repeated warnings that had not changed his filing conduct.
- Court
- Superior Court of Vermont, Windham Unit
- Date
- 2026-08-14
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Self-represented plaintiff repeatedly cited non-existent Vermont authority, mismatched reporter citations, and spurious quotations from court records.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- 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, “Rivard v. Vermont Department of Corrections”, safelegalai.com/tracker/rivard-v-vermont-department-of-corrections (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.