Hanlon v. Parkersburg City
CC West Virginia · Jan 6, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- state
- Court
- CC West Virginia
- Record ID
- hanlon-v-parkersburg-city-2026-01-06
- Observed outcome
- Request for injunctive relief dismissed
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
In Hanlon v. Parkersburg City, Wood County Circuit Judge John D. Beane denied an emergency injunction seeking to halt the city’s sanitation and recycling privatization process. The order said the complaint relied on propositions and authorities that either did not support the claims or did not exist, including two named cases, and concluded it was perhaps entirely drafted with an AI program that hallucinated substantial caselaw.
Fabricated: Case Law
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in CC West Virginia, with the listed outcome: Request for injunctive relief dismissed.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Trial
- Case Dismissed
- AI attribution
- Not Established
- Recorded tool
- No tool named in source
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Request for injunctive relief dismissed
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What this record does—and does not—establish
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Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.