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Strong v. Zubha Pop Foods LLC
·Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division·US-STATEDismissalprovisional
The Appellate Court of Illinois, First District on 2026-04-15 struck the defective brief after finding Centient AI links, false quotations, and numerous nonexistent authorities. The self-represented plaintiff filed an opening brief with one fabricated case citation and two mischaracterized case citations, including Dunn v. Old Orchard Ctr.
- Court
- Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division
- Date
- 2026-04-15
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Centient AI
- Conduct
- The pro se plaintiffs filed opening and reply briefs with repeated hallucinated citations, references to Centient AI, and abundant fictitious holdings and quotations; after their first briefs were struck and they were allowed to refile, they continued to rely on hallucinated authority and did not respond to two sanctions motions.
- Outcome
- Dismissal
- 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
- 2026-09-08
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Strong v. Zubha Pop Foods LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/stance-strong-and-kinisha-strong-v-zubha-pop-foods-llc-d-b-a-popeyes-chicken (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.