Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Trauger v. Columbia County District Attorney’s Office
·United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania·US-FEDWarningprovisional
On 2026-05-29, in Trauger v. Columbia County District Attorney's Office et al, the Middle District of Pennsylvania warned the filer that future use of false, nonexistent, or unsupported authorities may result in sanctions. A self-represented litigant filed opposition papers using nonexistent or hallucinated authorities and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Date
- 2026-05-29
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The pro se plaintiff cited Hakeem and Reitz for the opposite of their holdings and represented nonexistent Third Circuit assertions and cases. The court dismissed for lack of suable defendants and warned her.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Trauger v. Columbia County District Attorney’s Office”, safelegalai.com/tracker/trauger-v-columbia-county-district-attorneys-office-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.