Marc Henri David v. George Chiala Farms, Inc.
N.D. California · Nov 7, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- N.D. California
- Record ID
- marc-henri-david-v-george-chiala-farms-inc-2025-11-07
- Observed outcome
- The Court issued a formal admonishment to counsel for the Plaintiff and third-party defendants for citing nonexistent cases and misquoting a statute.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The Court admonished counsel for citing nonexistent cases and misquoting a statute in their motions. The judge explicitly stated that these actions reflected poorly on counsel's credibility and declined to credit the arguments supported by the fabricated or misrepresented authorities.
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff's counsel cited a nonexistent case 'Morgan v. State of California, 157 Cal. App. 4th 914, 922 (2007)'; the Court found no case of that name and noted the intended citation was Chamberlain v. Cocola Assocs., 958 F.2d 282 (9th Cir. 1992). || Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel for CDC cited a nonexistent authority 'Humphries v. Rice, 88 Cal. App. 4th 1413, 1424 (2001)'; the Court found the citation incorrect and noted counsel intended to cite Eddy v. Sharp, 199 Cal. App. 3d 858 (1988). || Misrepresented: Legal Norm | Plaintiff's counsel misquoted Cal. Civ. Code § 988(c), attributing language to the statute that it does not contain; the Court admonished counsel for the misquotation.
Misquoting a statute is as dangerous as inventing a case — pull the code text directly, never paraphrase from AI output.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fabricated: Case Law
- Misrepresented: Legal Norm
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- Misrepresented Authority
- Ip
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- AI (implied, unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- The matter was before the Court on motions to dismiss counterclaims and third-party complaints in a copyright infringement action.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
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Controls suggested by the public record
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