Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Woodward Harbor L.L.C. v. City of Mandeville
·United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana·US-FEDFineprovisional
Eastern District of Louisiana on 2026-03-05 in Woodward Harbor L.L.C., et al. v. City of Mandeville found counsel's brief contained three citation defects, including Wood v. City of Utica, Qutb v. Ramsey and Wood v. City, involving nonexistent authorities, fabricated or misattributed quotations. The court ordered counsel to pay $1,000 for the defective authorities and complete corrective CLE.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Date
- 2026-03-05
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The plaintiffs' opposition to a motion to dismiss contained hallucinated case citations, incorrect quotations, and false summaries of cases and legal rules; Walker admitted using generative AI tools and took responsibility.
- Outcome
- Fine
- Penalty
- US$1,000
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-08
Primary sources for this incident
Related regulation records for this incident
No related regulation record has been linked to this incident yet.
Similar incidents on the record
- Chirece C. v. Commissioner of Social Security, No. 25-11554 (E.D. Mich. 2026)2026-09-24 · United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · FineIn Michigan federal court, Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Stafford fined a Social Security claimant's lawyer $500 for AI-generated fictitious citations she admitted not checking. The same lawyer had been sanctioned in July…
- Booker v. The Kroger Co., No. 1:26-cv-02006-SDG (N.D. Ga.)2026-08-28 · US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division · FineThe US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia fined employment plaintiff's lawyer Christopher Johnson USD 8,000, payable to the court's sanctions fund, for citing four nonexistent or misrepresented authorit…
- Adams v. Matrix Providers, No. 1:23-cv-01996 (D. Colo.)2026-08-27 · US District Court for the District of Colorado · FineThe US District Court for the District of Colorado fined counsel Ms Pearson USD 1,000 after her brief cited a nonexistent case and attributed a quotation to Justice Scalia from an opinion dated 2020, four years after hi…
- Benjamin v. Costco Wholesale Corp., No. 2:24-cv-7399 (LGD) (E.D.N.Y.)2025-04-24 · US District Court, Eastern District of New York · FineIn the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Magistrate Judge Lee G. Dunst fined attorney Victoria Hovsepyan $1,000 under Rule 11 after she used the AI platform ChatOn to draft a reply on a remand moti…
Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Woodward Harbor L.L.C. v. City of Mandeville”, safelegalai.com/tracker/woodward-harbor-l-l-c-et-al-v-city-of-mandeville (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.