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Shaddai Harris v. Nadia Lyotard and Mitchell Sadler
·Court of Appeals of Texas·US-STATEOtherprovisional
On 2026-06-12, in Shaddai Harris v. Nadia Lyotard and Mitchell Sadler, Court of Appeals of Texas struck the appellant's original briefs, required an amended brief, and then decided the appeal on the redrawn briefing. A self-represented appellant filed a reply brief using at least four nonexistent or hallucinated authorities and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Texas
- Date
- 2026-06-12
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- GAI
- Conduct
- A self-represented appellant filed a reply brief using at least four nonexistent or hallucinated authorities and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Outcome
- Other
- 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, “Shaddai Harris v. Nadia Lyotard and Mitchell Sadler”, safelegalai.com/tracker/shaddai-harris-v-nadia-lyotard-and-mitchell-sadler (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.