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Zhang v. Zhang
·Supreme Court of Nevada·US-STATERegulatory referralprovisional
The Supreme Court of Nevada on 2026-04-22 fined counsel $250, referred counsel to the State Bar, and denied leave to file a corrected opening brief in Yanling Zhang v. Yanhui Zhang. Counsel filed an opening brief with two fabricated case citations and two mischaracterized case citations, including City of Henderson v. Bldg. & Constr. Trades Council.
- Court
- Supreme Court of Nevada
- Date
- 2026-04-22
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Attorney Michael Lin included fictional or misleading citations in the opening brief and acknowledged the seriousness of the conduct in response to the show-cause order.
- Outcome
- Regulatory referral
- Penalty
- US$250
- 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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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Zhang v. Zhang”, safelegalai.com/tracker/yanling-zhang-v-yanhui-zhang (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.