Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Webb v. Sullivan County Assessor
The Indiana Tax Court denies Chryshawna and Jeremy Webb’s pro se motion to supplement an administrative tax record. In a note on artificial intelligence, the court says cited rules did not support the Webbs’ propositions, admonishes them for likely generative-AI use, and imposes no further penalties.
- Court
- Indiana Tax Court
- Date
- 2026-07-16
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- generative AI
- Conduct
- Self-represented petitioners cited real court rules for propositions those rules did not support, leading the court to believe generative AI was used without verification.
- 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, “Webb v. Sullivan County Assessor”, safelegalai.com/tracker/webb-v-sullivan-county-assessor (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.