Morgan Cole v. Hobby Town Unlimited, Inc.
C.D. Illinois · Sep 2, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- C.D. Illinois
- Record ID
- morgan-cole-v-hobby-town-unlimited-inc-2026-09-02
- Observed outcome
- Attorney David Baldemar Reyes was ordered to pay a $1,000 Rule 11 sanction and send the order to the Illinois ARDC.
- Known monetary consequence
- $1
Why this matter warrants attention
Fabricated: Case Law | The default-judgment motion contained four hallucinated citations, including citations to non-existent cases or authorities that were inaccurately described; the Court treated them as classic indicators of unverified AI use and found their inclusion objectively unreasonable under Rule 11. Outcome: Attorney David Baldemar Reyes was ordered to pay a $1,000 Rule 11 sanction and send the order to the Illinois ARDC.. Attorney Reyes admitted that a motion for default judgment contained four inaccurate, AI-generated citations and accepted responsibility for failing to independently verify them. The Court found that the motion included non-existent or mischaracterized cases, and that the same or similar hallucinations had appeared in at least two prior filings, including filings in Hippe and Pittman. Because prior corrective measures had failed, the Court imposed a $1,000 Rule 11 sanction for deterrence and required Reyes to send the order to the Illinois ARDC.
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Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Trial
- Monetary
- Professional
- AI attribution
- Not Established
- Recorded tool
- Unidentified
- Known monetary consequence
- $1
- Procedural posture
- Attorney David Baldemar Reyes was ordered to pay a $1,000 Rule 11 sanction and send the order to the Illinois ARDC.
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