Perry v. Exeter Finance LLC
D. Arizona · Feb 26, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- D. Arizona
- Record ID
- perry-v-exeter-finance-llc-2026-02-26
- Observed outcome
- The court granted the motion to compel arbitration and issued a formal warning regarding the plaintiff's use of fictitious legal authorities.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The court issued a warning to a pro se litigant after observing that her filings contained fabricated case law citations and misattributed quotations, likely generated by artificial intelligence. The court explicitly stated that future filings containing fictitious cases would subject the litigant to sanctions under Rule 11.
Fabricated: Case Law | Court observed the citation 'Chavez v. Bank of Am., 2014 WL 2159382 (D. Ariz. 2014)' provided by Plaintiff does not return the case identified. || False Quotes: Case Law | Court noted Plaintiff misattributes an apparently fabricated quotation to a real case, citing 'Matterhorn, Inc. v. NCR Corp., 763 F.2d 866, 868 (7th Cir. 1985)'. || Fabricated: Case Law | Court observed the citation 'Anderson v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 306 F.3d 726 (9th Cir. 2002)' provided by Plaintiff does not return the case identified.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in D. Arizona, with the listed outcome: Warning.
Failure modes and consequences
- Hallucinated_case_law
- Fabricated_quotations
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- Contract
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- AI (unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- The court granted the defendants' motion to compel arbitration and stayed the litigation pending the outcome of the arbitration proceedings.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court noted the plaintiff likely used artificial intelligence.
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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.