Braica v. Frankowski (Anthony Braica v. Tom Frankowski)
D. Connecticut · Dec 15, 2025 · Vernon D. Oliver
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- D. Connecticut
- Record ID
- braica-v-frankowski-anthony-braica-v-tom-frankowski-2025-12-15
- Observed outcome
- The court admonished the plaintiff and struck the response and sur-reply briefs from the record.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The court admonished the pro se plaintiff and struck his response and sur-reply briefs from the record. The court further warned that any future submission of AI-generated hallucinations would likely result in more severe sanctions, including the potential dismissal of the case with prejudice.
False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff attributed a wholly fabricated quotation to this real case. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Case cited to support Eighth Amendment application to probationers though Solem concerned incarceration and is not relevant here. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Cited to support Eighth Amendment argument despite Graham involving incarceration rather than probation. || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff misattributed a quotation to Moore and cited it in support of an Eighth Amendment argument though Moore addresses a Fourth Amendment apartment-search context. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Cited Rochin to support an Eighth Amendment 'shocks the conscience' argument though Rochin concerns due process (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments) and is not on point. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Plaintiff relied on Steffel but that case addresses First and Fourteenth Amendment issues, not the Eighth. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Misstated the holding; Jones concerns GPS attachment to a vehicle, not to a person as plaintiff asserted. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Cited Hamilton for a sovereign-immunity point but failed to note Hamilton dismissed negligence claims as barred by sovereign immunity. || Fabricated: Case Law | Entirely fabricated case; plaintiff supplied a citation string that corresponds to different cases with different names. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Cited Fuller to suggest probationers have Eighth Amendment protections relevant here, but the case concerns prison housing classification and is not on point. || Fabricated: Case Law | Entirely fabricated case; the plaintiff cited 'State v. Kelleher' with citations that lead to unrelated real cases. || Outdated Advice: Overturned Case Law | Cited Quon without disclosing that the Ninth Circuit decision was explicitly reversed and remanded by the Supreme Court.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in D. Connecticut, with the listed outcome: Briefs struck; warning.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- Misrepresented Authority
- Civil Rights
- Trial
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- unspecified
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- The court issued an order to show cause regarding Rule 11 sanctions following the plaintiff's submission of briefs containing AI-generated hallucinations, subsequently striking the briefs and issuing an admonition.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court notes the plaintiff used publicly available websites but did not specify the AI tool.
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Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.
- Confirm that every authority actually supports the proposition for which it is offered.