Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Wilkinson v. Schmelzer
·Court of Appeals of Iowa·US-STATENoted, no consequenceprovisional
The Court of Appeals of Iowa affirms a custody order and addresses a sanctions request based on alleged AI use. The court finds no hallucinated case, says it cannot determine whether a nonexistent appellate rule citation is a typo or unchecked AI output, and declines AI-use sanctions.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Iowa
- Date
- 2026-08-19
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Self-represented appellant cited nonexistent Iowa R. App. P. 6.1004(3), but the court could not tell whether it was a typo or unchecked AI output.
- Outcome
- Noted, no consequence
- 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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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Wilkinson v. Schmelzer”, safelegalai.com/tracker/wilkinson-v-schmelzer (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.