James Fahey v. Wally’s Las Vegas, LLC, et al.
D. Nevada · Dec 10, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- D. Nevada
- Record ID
- james-fahey-v-wallys-las-vegas-llc-et-al-2025-12-10
- Observed outcome
- The court granted the defendant's motion to compel discovery, denied the plaintiff's request for a protective order, and issued a warning regarding the use of AI-generated citations.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The court issued a formal warning to a pro se litigant regarding the inclusion of AI-hallucinated case citations in a response brief. While the court granted the defendant's motion to compel discovery, it did not impose monetary or professional sanctions at this time, but explicitly cautioned that future use of nonexistent citations could result in sanctions.
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Hagen v. Williams, No. 2:18-cv-00425, 2020 WL 1272618,' but the court found the case name, docket number, and database identifier do not correspond and the citation appears nonexistent. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'U.S. ex rel. Poehling v. UnitedHealth Grp., Inc., 2018 WL 845548, at *5,' but the court concluded the case name exists while the database identifier/electronic report number provided does not correspond and the cited order does not support Plaintiff's parenthetical explanation. || False Quotes: Case Law | Plaintiff cited language to 'Solis v. Zenith Capital, LLC, No. C 08-4854 PJH, 2009 WL 1324051, at *3,' but the court found the quoted material does not appear in the order cited and the order does not address the issue Plaintiff attributed to it.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in D. Nevada, with the listed outcome: Warning.
Failure modes and consequences
- Hallucinated_case_law
- Misrepresented_case_law
- False_quotes
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- AI (unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Order on Defendant's motion to compel discovery and Plaintiff's request for a protective order.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court identified the citations as AI hallucinations.
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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.
- Confirm that every authority actually supports the proposition for which it is offered.