ECLI:NL:RBGEL:2025:9423
Gelderland · Nov 6, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- international
- Court
- Gelderland
- Record ID
- eclinlrbgel20259423-2025-11-06
- Observed outcome
- The court rejected the fabricated and irrelevant case law and dismissed the plaintiff's appeal, affirming the municipal executive's decision.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The Gelderland District Court dismissed the plaintiff's appeal after finding that the representative submitted fabricated and irrelevant case law. The court explicitly rejected the cited authorities, noting that the representative could not verify them, and concluded that an AI tool was likely used to generate the non-existent rulings.
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's counsel cited several CRvB rulings with ECLI numbers that the court could not locate; some cited statements appear not to exist and were therefore rejected. || Misrepresented: Case Law | ECLI numbers that the court located corresponded to topics irrelevant to the Participation Act argument; the cited case law was misrepresented and not relevant.
Dismissal can follow from bad citations alone; the merits never get reached if the authorities are fictitious.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Administrative
- Trial
- Case Dismissed
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- ChatGPT or another AI tool
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Administrative appeal of a municipal executive board decision regarding social assistance benefits, heard by the Gelderland District Court on September 24, 2025.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court stated it could not escape the impression that ChatGPT or another AI tool was used.
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Latest evidence review: Primary Document Verified (high confidence).
Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.
- Do not treat a paid legal-research product as a substitute for source verification.