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Polinski v. USA
Court of Federal Claims · Oct 15, 2025
/ federalEditorial impact: lowpro sefake citationscivil rightstrial
Direct answer
What happened in this matter?
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. v. Wasatch Bank, 788 P.2d 514 (Utah 1990)' in his Emergency Motion for Declaratory Judgment; the court found no such case and noted the citation appears fictitious and may relate to City of Monticello v. Christensen, 788 P.2d 513 (Utah 1990). Outcome: Warning. "On September 3, 2025, Plaintiff filed his response to the court’s order to file copies of the cases he cited (#7). Therein, Plaintiff avers he took “concrete remedial steps” to cure the time wasted by his use of artificial-intelligence-hallucinated case citations, including “submission of the verified opinions as exhibits” (#7 at 2).…
- Why the court cared
- The record concerns whether authorities presented to the decision-maker existed and could be verified. The tracked outcome is Warning; the linked source controls the precise reasoning.
- Why it matters now
- This matter connects pro se and fake citations involving AI (implied, unspecified) with Warning in Court of Federal Claims, making it a concrete reference point for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Why this matter is tracked
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. v. Wasatch Bank, 788 P.2d 514 (Utah 1990)' in his Emergency Motion for Declaratory Judgment; the court found no such case and noted the citation appears fictitious and may relate to City of Monticello v. Christensen, 788 P.2d 513 (Utah 1990). Outcome: Warning. "On September 3, 2025, Plaintiff filed his response to the court’s order to file copies of the cases he cited (#7). Therein, Plaintiff avers he took “concrete remedial steps” to cure the time wasted by his use of artificial-intelligence-hallucinated case citations, including “submission of the verified opinions as exhibits” (#7 at 2). Indeed, Plaintiff’s response stresses how he“obtained authentic copies” of those cases and “attached” them as exhibits. See (id.).Plaintiff did not attach any exhibits to his response to this court’s order. The court is convinced that those two case citations are AI-hallucinated. Plaintiff’s insistence that they exist—and that he provided copies of them to this court—is bewildering."
Operational lesson
This matter connects pro se and fake citations involving AI (implied, unspecified) with Warning in Court of Federal Claims, making it a concrete reference point for verification, supervision, and response controls.
Record details
CourtCourt of Federal Claims
Jurisdictionfederal
CircuitNot recorded
DateOct 15, 2025
AI
AI toolAI (implied, unspecified)
Party typePro Se Litigant
OutcomeWarning
Known amountNot recorded
Professional sanctionNo
Attribution boundary
What the record establishes about AI use
reported
AI (implied, unspecified) is recorded in the source dataset; confirm the basis in the linked document.
Procedural posture
Warning
Correction behavior
Correction behavior is not separately verified in the current record.
Tracked discrepancy record
3 citation, quotation, or authority issues are recorded in the source dataset.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. v. Wasatch Bank, 788 P.2d 514 (Utah 1990)' in his Emergency Motion for Declaratory Judgment; the court found no such case and noted the citation appears fictitious and may relate to City of Monticello v. Christensen, 788 P.2d 513 (Utah 1990).
- Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Ivey v. United States, 2019 WL 2080027 (Fed. Cl. 2019)' in his Emergency Motion to Recognize and Enforce Express Trust; the court found that citation does not lead to any actual document and treated it as a fabricated authority.
- Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Self v. Ray, 61 F.R.D. 666 (E.D. Ark. 1974)'; the court stated the citation actually corresponds to Young v. Trailwood Lakes, Inc., 61 F.R.D. 666 (E.D. Ky. 1974), indicating a misattributed or fictional citation.
Questions this record answers
- What happened in Polinski v. USA?
- Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. v. Wasatch Bank, 788 P.2d 514 (Utah 1990)' in his Emergency Motion for Declaratory Judgment; the court found no such case and noted the citation appears fictitious and may relate to City of Monticello v. Christensen, 788 P.2d 513 (Utah 1990). Outcome: Warning. "On September 3, 2025, Plaintiff filed his response to the court’s order to file copies of the cases he cited (#7). Therein, Plaintiff avers he took “concrete remedial steps” to cure the time wasted by his use of artificial-intelligence-hallucinated case citations, including “submission of the verified opinions as exhibits” (#7 at 2).…
- Why does Polinski v. USA matter for legal AI risk?
- This matter connects pro se and fake citations involving AI (implied, unspecified) with Warning in Court of Federal Claims, making it a concrete reference point for verification, supervision, and response controls.
- What does the public record establish about Polinski v. USA?
- 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 Polinski v. USA 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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