Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Smith v. Polk County
·United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina·US-FEDPendingprovisional
On 2026-06-03, in Wayne K. Smith, Sr. v. Polk County, et al, the Western District of North Carolina ordered plaintiff's counsel to show cause about two fabricated quotations and compliance with the court's AI-use standing order. Counsel filed an opening brief using quotations that did not appear in the cited source.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
- Date
- 2026-06-03
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Plaintiff’s counsel filed a memorandum with two fabricated quotations, multiple unsupported statements of law, and missed AI-use certifications. The court directed counsel to show cause.
- Outcome
- Pending
- 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, “Smith v. Polk County”, safelegalai.com/tracker/wayne-k-smith-sr-v-polk-county-et-al (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.