Medical Buyers Group LLC d/b/a Integrity v. Candice Pence, et al.
M.D. Georgia · Nov 18, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- M.D. Georgia
- Record ID
- medical-buyers-group-llc-d-b-a-integrity-v-candice-pence-et-al-2025-11-18
- Observed outcome
- Public admonishment and an order to pay the opposing party's reasonable attorney's fees.
- Known monetary consequence
- $10,000
Why this matter warrants attention
The court sanctioned attorney Jason Gordon for violating Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)(2) by submitting AI-generated briefs containing fabricated case citations. The court issued a public admonishment and ordered the attorney to pay the opposing party's reasonable attorney's fees associated with responding to the erroneous filings.
Fabricated: Case Law | Integrity cited Truist Bank v. Buerge, 2022 WL 17541757, at *6 (M.D. Ga. Dec. 8, 2022); court conducted independent search and could not locate the opinion; citation remained in Integrity's final amended response. || Fabricated: Case Law | Alleged citation Mission Critical Sols., LLC v. Connolly, 2021 WL 5985016 (M.D. Ga. Dec. 16, 2021) appeared in earlier filing but was not in the final amended response; court could not locate the opinion in its searches. || Fabricated: Case Law | Alleged citation 'Bliss, 279 Ga. App. At 807' appeared in earlier briefing and could not be located by the court's searches. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Integrity is alleged to have misrepresented the holding of Encompass Off. Sols., Inc. v. Ingenix, Inc.; the court read Encompass and found Defendants' allegation that the holding was misstated to be credible.
This record documents a Lawyer filing issue in M.D. Georgia, with the listed outcome: Cost Order and Public Admonishment.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Contract
- Trial
- Monetary
- Warning
- AI attribution
- Admitted
- Recorded tool
- unspecified AI
- Known monetary consequence
- $10,000
- Procedural posture
- Ancillary proceeding following an order to show cause regarding potential Rule 11(b) violations.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The attorney admitted to using AI to draft the briefs.
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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.