Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Van Deel v. A-Plus Contracting, LLC
·Missouri Court of Appeals·US-STATEOtherprovisional
The Missouri Court of Appeals on 2026-05-05 dismissed the appeal because the appellant’s brief violated appellate briefing rules and included inaccurate or nonexistent caselaw citations in Van Deel v. A-Plus Contracting, LLC. Counsel filed a brief with two fabricated case citations, including B.M. v. J.S.
- Court
- Missouri Court of Appeals
- Date
- 2026-05-05
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Appellant’s brief contained inaccurate or nonexistent citations, including B.M. v. J.S., and mislabeled the court. The court dismissed the appeal without imposing a citation-related sanction.
- Outcome
- Other
- 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, “Van Deel v. A-Plus Contracting, LLC”, safelegalai.com/tracker/van-deel-v-a-plus-contracting-llc (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.