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E.D. Missouri · Jul 10, 2026
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's TRO motion cited a nonexistent Ninth Circuit case; court identified the citation as fabricated and noted AI drafting. The court determined Plaintiff's emergency motion for a temporary restraining order was apparently drafted using generative AI and contained bracketed placeholders and a fabricated case citation ("Corrigan v. City of Scottsdale, 720 F.3d 513, 520 (9th Cir. 2013)"). The court noted this raised Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 concerns but, for judicial efficiency, addressed the motion on the merits, denied the TRO, and dismissed the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B).…
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's TRO motion cited a nonexistent Ninth Circuit case; court identified the citation as fabricated and noted AI drafting. The court determined Plaintiff's emergency motion for a temporary restraining order was apparently drafted using generative AI and contained bracketed placeholders and a fabricated case citation ("Corrigan v. City of Scottsdale, 720 F.3d 513, 520 (9th Cir. 2013)"). The court noted this raised Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 concerns but, for judicial efficiency, addressed the motion on the merits, denied the TRO, and dismissed the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B). No professional sanctions or monetary penalties were imposed related to the fabricated citation.
This matter connects pro se and fake citations involving AI (implied, unspecified) with a recorded judicial response in E.D. Missouri, making it a concrete reference point for verification, supervision, and response controls.
AI (implied, unspecified) is recorded in the source dataset; confirm the basis in the linked document.
Procedural posture is not separately recorded in the current dataset.
Correction behavior is not separately verified in the current record.
1 citation, quotation, or authority issues are recorded in the source dataset.
Related by court, jurisdiction, tool, or classified failure pattern. Similarity does not imply the same facts or outcome.