Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Harris v. Elementis Specialties, Inc.
·United States District Court for the Central District of California·US-FEDWarningprovisional
The Central District of California on 2026-04-17 warned counsel to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions in Robert Harris v. Elementis Specialties, Inc. Counsel filed a motion with one fabricated case citation and one mischaracterized case citation.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Central District of California
- Date
- 2026-04-17
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Elementis’s counsel used AI in a motion to dismiss and produced several citation errors, including a completely hallucinated citation and other authorities that did not support the asserted propositions; counsel failed to alert the court after discovering the misrepresentations.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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, “Harris v. Elementis Specialties, Inc.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/robert-harris-v-elementis-specialties-inc (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.