Processo 0001601-72.2025.5.20.0005 (TRT-20, 1a Turma, Sergipe)
·Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 20a Regiao (Sergipe), 1a Turma·BRFineunverified
A panel of the Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 20a Regiao in Sergipe, Brazil, fined a company 5 percent of the claim value for bad-faith litigation after its lawyer's AI-drafted appeal cited invented precedents, including a 2015 ministerial vote discussing PIX, a payment system created in 2020. The court forwarded the file to the Brazilian Bar for ethics review.
- Court
- Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 20a Regiao (Sergipe), 1a Turma
- Date
- 2026-08-03
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- An employer's lawyer filed an appeal citing nonexistent precedents, including a supposed 2015 vote by Minister Mauricio Godinho Delgado discussing PIX, a payment system that did not exist until 2020. The fine was imposed on the company under CLT articles 793-B and 793-C.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB): Full record forwarded to the OAB for an ethics investigation (per regional press report). No disposition on record. (2026-08-03)
- Status
- Unverified — pending primary-source confirmation
- Last checked
- 2026-09-03
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Processo 0001601-72.2025.5.20.0005 (TRT-20, 1a Turma, Sergipe)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/trt20-sergipe-pix-precedent (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.