Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Roger Patel et al. v. Chandresh Patel et al.
On 2026-05-28, in Roger Patel et al. v. Chandresh Patel et al, the Western District of Kentucky warned the filer that future use of false, nonexistent, or unsupported authorities may result in sanctions. Counsel filed a response using quotations that did not appear in the cited source and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
- Date
- 2026-05-28
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- generative artificial intelligence
- Conduct
- Counsel filed a response using quotations that did not appear in the cited source and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- 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, “Roger Patel et al. v. Chandresh Patel et al.”, safelegalai.com/tracker/roger-patel-et-al-v-chandresh-patel-et-al (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.