Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
State National Insurance Company, Inc. v. Treadwell
·United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama·US-FEDSanctionsprovisional
On 2026-03-26, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama publicly reprimanded counsel and ordered notice of the reprimand after counsel admitted ChatGPT and OpenCase produced made-up quotations. Counsel submitted a filing with false quotations and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including Co. v. Houston National Bank and Whelan v. Abell.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Date
- 2026-03-26
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT; OpenCase
- Conduct
- Attorney Edward May used ChatGPT and OpenCase while preparing defendants' brief and fabricated quotations in a filing to the court.
- Outcome
- Sanctions
- 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, “State National Insurance Company, Inc. v. Treadwell”, safelegalai.com/tracker/state-national-insurance-company-inc-v-damon-treadwell-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.