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State of Iowa ex rel. J.G. v. Anderson
·Court of Appeals of Iowa·US-STATEDismissalprovisional
On 2026-06-10, in State of Iowa ex rel J.G. v. Mynesia A. Anderson, Iowa Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal after the appellant failed to comply with its order addressing fabricated authorities in her briefs. A self-represented appellant filed a petition using quotations that did not appear in the cited source and at least eight nonexistent or hallucinated authorities.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Iowa
- Date
- 2026-06-10
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The self-represented appellant’s filings included purported quotations from at least eight authorities and citations to two nonexistent Iowa cases. After she failed to file copies or amended briefing as ordered, the court dismissed the appeal.
- 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, “State of Iowa ex rel. J.G. v. Anderson”, safelegalai.com/tracker/state-of-iowa-ex-rel-j-g-v-mynesia-a-anderson (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.