Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Bhagat v. Shah
·United States District Court for the Southern District of New York·US-FEDWarningprovisional
On 2026-04-06, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York admonished the self-represented defendant to verify that cited cases exist and support the propositions asserted in future AI-assisted filings. A self-represented party submitted a motion with false quotations and fabricated or nonexistent authorities, including In re SunEdison, Inc. Sec. Litig.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Date
- 2026-04-06
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Defendant cited In re SunEdison Sec. Litig. for a quotation about disclosure of corporate documents; the court found the quote in neither the cited SDNY case nor any Westlaw case and concluded it was an AI-generated hallucination.
- 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
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Bhagat v. Shah”, safelegalai.com/tracker/viral-bhagat-v-anuja-sharad-shah (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.