Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Ryan-Michael Jarvis v. County of Teton Wyoming
·United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit·US-FEDWarningprovisional
The Tenth Circuit on 2026-04-24 warned the self-represented party to verify legal authorities and cautioned that future hallucinated or nonexistent citations may bring sanctions in Ryan-Michael Jarvis v. County of Teton Wyoming. The self-represented party filed a pleading with one false case quotation and one mischaracterized case citation, including Spinelli v. United States that does not appear in the opinion.
- Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- Date
- 2026-04-24
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The self-represented party filed a pleading with one false case quotation and one mischaracterized case citation.
- 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, “Ryan-Michael Jarvis v. County of Teton Wyoming”, safelegalai.com/tracker/ryan-michael-jarvis-v-county-of-teton-wyoming (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.