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United States v. Farris
·United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit·US-FEDRegulatory referralprovisional
On 2026-04-03, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit disqualified counsel, denied compensation for time served, locked the briefs, directed notice of the opinion, and referred counsel for discipline. Counsel submitted a brief with nonexistent or misstated legal provisions, false quotations and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including United States v. Washington and United States v. Anthony.
- Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Date
- 2026-04-03
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Westlaw CoCounsel
- Conduct
- Howe used Westlaw CoCounsel to draft the principal and reply briefs; they contained three AI-generated inaccurate quotations, misrepresented Washington and Anthony, and repeated two quotations in the reply.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- 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, “United States v. Farris”, safelegalai.com/tracker/united-states-v-farris (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.