Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Cabrera Thompson v. Seattle Public Schools
·United States District Court for the Western District of Washington·US-FEDPendingprovisional
On 2026-03-31, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted leave to amend only in part and ordered the plaintiff to show cause within seven days for continued citation of nonexistent authority. A self-represented party submitted a motion with fabricated or nonexistent authorities.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
- Date
- 2026-03-31
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff’s proposed second amended complaint cited Shumway v. Wright, No. 2:19-cv-00519-RSL, for a negligent-misrepresentation proposition; that docket number belonged to Christophe v. Nunn, and the court found no Shumway v. Wright in the district.
- Outcome
- Pending
- 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, “Cabrera Thompson v. Seattle Public Schools”, safelegalai.com/tracker/rosa-maria-cabrera-thompson-v-seattle-public-schools (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.