Owen v. Askew et al.
Record source: imported from Damien Charlotin’s AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC BY 4.0); document hosted in his archive: open the upstream document. What AI Vortex adds.
D. Oregon · Jul 28, 2026
What happened in this matter?
Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant Askew relied on and then withdrew a non-existent Ninth Circuit decision cited as authority. Outcome: Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10).
- Why the court cared
- The structured public record identifies pro se and fake citations and records Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10). The linked source controls the precise reasoning and procedural context.
- Why it matters now
- This matter connects pro se and fake citations with Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10) in D. Oregon. It provides a source-linked baseline for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Why this matter is tracked
Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant Askew relied on and then withdrew a non-existent Ninth Circuit decision cited as authority. Outcome: Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10).
This matter connects pro se and fake citations with Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10) in D. Oregon. It provides a source-linked baseline for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Record details
Corrected 2026-11-02: see the corrections log.
What the record establishes about AI use
The current record does not establish a specific AI tool. Do not infer AI use beyond the source.
Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10)
Correction behavior is not separately verified in the current record.
Tracked discrepancy record
2 citation, quotation, or authority issues are recorded in the source dataset.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant Askew relied on and then withdrew a non-existent Ninth Circuit decision cited as authority.
- Misrepresented: Case Law | Brief cited an incorrectly-captioned D. Or. case (wrong docket/caption) and characterized the district court's personal-jurisdiction ruling without noting the Ninth Circuit reversal.
Questions this record answers
- What happened in Owen v. Askew et al.?
- Fabricated: Case Law | Defendant Askew relied on and then withdrew a non-existent Ninth Circuit decision cited as authority. Outcome: Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10).
- Why does Owen v. Askew et al. matter for legal AI risk?
- This matter connects pro se and fake citations with Warning: the court warned all parties that false citations in future briefs may be penalized and will be viewed as an attempt to deceive the court (Doc. 109, p. 10) in D. Oregon. It provides a source-linked baseline for verification, supervision, and response controls.
- What does the public record establish about Owen v. Askew et al.?
- The record summarizes the outcome described in the linked public source. The recorded document is hosted in the upstream publisher archive. This page is not a substitute for the complete docket, subsequent history, or jurisdiction-specific advice.
- Which source supports this Owen v. Askew et al. summary?
- The recorded source is Damien Charlotin case archive. It is classified as publisher document archive; review the linked material and subsequent docket history before relying on this summary.
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