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Sai Malena Jimenez-Fogarty v. Thomas Fogarty
·United States District Court for the Southern District of New York·US-FEDFineprovisional
The Southern District of New York on 2026-04-29 fined counsel $2,500 and ordered counsel to notify the client about the AI-related citation errors in Sai Malena Jimenez-Fogarty v. Thomas Fogarty et al. Counsel filed a brief with seven fabricated case citations.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Date
- 2026-04-29
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Attorney Lindsay filed two memoranda with numerous fabricated citations; the court described several nonexistent or mis-cited cases and found an AI program generated the fabricated citations. The court imposed a $2,500 court sanction.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$2,500
- 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, “Sai Malena Jimenez-Fogarty v. Thomas Fogarty”, safelegalai.com/tracker/sai-malena-jimenez-fogarty-v-thomas-fogarty-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.