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ByoPlanet International v. Johansson and Gilstrap
S.D. Florida · Aug 1, 2025
FL / federalEditorial impact: highfake citationsfabricated quotesmisrepresented authoritycontract
Direct answer
What happened in this matter?
False Quotes: Case Law | Fabricated Scalia quote attributed to Liteky; court verified the quote does not appear in the opinion. Outcome: Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar..…
- Why the court cared
- The record concerns whether authorities presented to the decision-maker existed and could be verified. The tracked outcome is Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar.; the linked source controls the precise reasoning.
- Why it matters now
- This matter connects fake citations and fabricated quotes involving ChatGPT with Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar. in S.D. Florida, making it a concrete reference point for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Why this matter is tracked
False Quotes: Case Law | Fabricated Scalia quote attributed to Liteky; court verified the quote does not appear in the opinion. Outcome: Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar.. In May, the court asked Counsel to show cause why they should not be sanctioned for filing briefs with hallucinations - especially since they continued filing hallucinated submissions after being warned about it.In their Answer, Counsel revealed that "specific citations and quotes in question were inadvertently derived from internal draft text prepared using generative AI research tools designed to expedite legal research and brief drafting".In the Order, the court noted that Counsel "was not candid to the Court when confronted about his use of AI, stating that some of these documents were “prepared under time constraints,” when he had nearly two more weeks before the deadline to submit his responses." The judge was also unimpressed by Counsel's attempt to shift the blame to a paralegal.Finally, in the fee dispute order, the court cited this database to point out that its approach to award costs and fees was appropriate, especially given the egregiousness of the claimant's conduct in this case. The judge also took into account "the significant, if indirect, monetary losses that may arise from nonmonetary sanctions in other cases, such as loss of business and loss of reputation, or the monetary loss borne by a client when a motion or even an entire case is adversely decided due to counsel’s misuse of AI."
Operational lesson
This matter connects fake citations and fabricated quotes involving ChatGPT with Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar. in S.D. Florida, making it a concrete reference point for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Record details
FloridaSingle-state evidence scope
CourtS.D. Florida
Jurisdictionfederal
Circuit11th Circuit
DateAug 1, 2025
CH
AI toolChatGPT
Party typeLawyer
OutcomeCases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar.
Known amount$85,567
Professional sanctionYes
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What the record establishes about AI use
reported
ChatGPT is recorded in the source dataset; confirm the basis in the linked document.
Procedural posture
Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar.
Correction behavior
Correction behavior is not separately verified in the current record.
Tracked discrepancy record
15 citation, quotation, or authority issues are recorded in the source dataset.
- False Quotes: Case Law | Fabricated Scalia quote attributed to Liteky; court verified the quote does not appear in the opinion.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Complaint cited a non-existent case; court noted the reporter citation corresponds to Roberts v. State, not Merrill Lynch v. Hagerty.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Response cited a non-existent S.D. Fla. case; citation actually points to a Louisiana case.
- False Quotes: Case Law | Quoted Hood for a Rule 11 proposition not found in the case; court confirmed the quote does not appear and the case does not discuss 'clerical errors' or 'bad faith.'
- Fabricated: Case Law | Appeal brief cited a non-existent Castillo decision.
- Misrepresented: Case Law | Misstated Castillo as holding that knowingly false testimony by an agent/expert warranted reopening judgments; court noted real Castillo decisions do not support this.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Appeal brief cited a non-existent Chowdhury decision.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Appeal brief cited a non-existent Nabulsi decision.
Show 7 additional discrepancies
- Fabricated: Case Law | Appeal brief cited a non-existent Olson decision.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Appeal brief cited a non-existent Perkins decision.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Response cited a non-existent Fourth DCA decision; opposing party flagged the fabrication.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Response cited a non-existent Kaplan decision.
- False Quotes: Case Law | Motion cited Ehlers for a Rule 60(b) 'liberally construed to do substantial justice' quote that does not appear in the case.
- False Quotes: Case Law | Show-cause response attributed a bad-faith requirement quote to Purchasing Power that does not appear in the opinion.
- False Quotes: Case Law | Show-cause response quoted Carroll as declining sanctions for incorrect citations absent intent to mislead; the quoted language does not appear.
Questions this record answers
- What happened in ByoPlanet International v. Johansson and Gilstrap?
- False Quotes: Case Law | Fabricated Scalia quote attributed to Liteky; court verified the quote does not appear in the opinion. Outcome: Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar..…
- Why does ByoPlanet International v. Johansson and Gilstrap matter for legal AI risk?
- This matter connects fake citations and fabricated quotes involving ChatGPT with Cases dismissed without prejudice, attorney ordered to pay defendants' attorney fees, referred to Florida Bar. in S.D. Florida, making it a concrete reference point for verification, supervision, and response controls.
- What does the public record establish about ByoPlanet International v. Johansson and Gilstrap?
- The record summarizes the outcome described in the linked public source. The recorded document is hosted in the upstream publisher archive. This page is not a substitute for the complete docket, subsequent history, or jurisdiction-specific advice.
- Which source supports this ByoPlanet International v. Johansson and Gilstrap summary?
- The recorded source is Damien Charlotin case archive. It is classified as publisher document archive; review the linked material and subsequent docket history before relying on this summary.
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