Alana Kotler v Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
Ontario Labour Relations Board · Aug 29, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- Ontario Labour Relations Board
- Record ID
- alana-kotler-v-ontario-secondary-school-teachers-federation-2025-08-29
- Observed outcome
- Application dismissed.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The Ontario Labour Relations Board dismissed the application for failing to establish a prima facie case. The Board explicitly rejected the applicant's reliance on fifteen unlocatable case citations, noting that the applicant failed to provide copies when requested and that the cited authorities were either non-existent or misrepresented.
The Board reasoned that it cannot consider cases that do not exist or cannot be located. It further determined that the union's duty of fair representation under section 74 does not extend to internal union affairs or processes, and that the applicant failed to provide any evidence of collusion between the union and the school board.
Fifteen-plus unlocatable cites got the application dismissed; a single bad cite poisons the whole brief in labour tribunals.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fabricated Case Law
- Misrepresented Case Law
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Administrative
- AI attribution
- Reported
- Recorded tool
- AI (implied, unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- The Board dismissed the application without a hearing or consultation pursuant to Rule 39.1 of the Board’s Rules of Procedure, finding it failed to make out a prima facie case.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The responding party requested confirmation if the cases were hallucinated via AI.
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Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify the existence, citation, court, and precedential status of every authority before filing.
- Confirm that each authority supports the stated proposition and has not been mischaracterized.
- Apply the same source-checking controls to AI (implied, unspecified) output as to any other research input.
- Read the linked source and subsequent docket history before relying on this record for legal work.