Curry v. Capital One Auto Finance
E.D. North Carolina · Mar 26, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- E.D. North Carolina
- Record ID
- curry-v-capital-one-auto-finance-2026-03-26
- Observed outcome
- Defendant's motion to dismiss granted; plaintiff's motion for leave to amend denied; case closed.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The court denied the plaintiff's motion for leave to amend her complaint, finding that the inclusion of fabricated legal citations in her filings constituted bad faith and that the proposed amendments were futile. The court also granted the defendant's motion to dismiss the original complaint for failure to state a claim.
The court reasoned that leave to amend should be denied when there is bad faith or when the amendment would be futile. It determined that the plaintiff's inclusion of fabricated citations in her proposed amended complaint constituted bad faith, and that the underlying claims failed to state a plausible cause of action under the FCRA or state law.
Fabricated statutory provisions now constitute bad faith and support denial of leave to amend — not just admonishment.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fabricated_legal_authority
- Hallucinated_statutory_provisions
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Other
- Trial
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- AI (unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- The court granted the defendant's motion to dismiss and denied the plaintiff's motion for leave to file a second amended complaint.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court noted the plaintiff likely used artificial intelligence to draft her filings.
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Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify the existence, citation, court, and precedential status of every authority before filing.
- 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.