Friend v. Serpa
CA Florida · Dec 17, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- state
- Court
- CA Florida
- Record ID
- friend-v-serpa-2025-12-17
- Observed outcome
- The court affirmed the lower court's decision on the merits while issuing a formal warning regarding the appellee's use of fabricated citations.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The court issued a formal warning to a pro se appellee for submitting phantom case citations. The court explicitly cautioned that litigants using artificial intelligence to assist in drafting submissions are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of their filings and may face future sanctions for non-compliance with procedural rules regarding citation integrity.
Fabricated: Case Law | Appellee included multiple non-existent case citations (phantom authority); court found them fabricated and instructed they be disregarded.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in CA Florida, with the listed outcome: Warning.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Family
- Appellate
- Warning
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- AI (unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Appellate review of a circuit court decision, resulting in an affirmance on the merits with a written opinion addressing procedural misconduct.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court explicitly references those who use artificial intelligence to assist in submissions.
Retained unchanged after audit: the existing summary is source-specific, non-placeholder, and supported by the recorded source link. Read the underlying source before relying on it for legal advice or a filing.
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.