State ex rel. Steven Schnell v. Honorable Rebecca Richardson
Mo. Ct. App., E.D. · Sep 8, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- Mo. Ct. App., E.D.
- Record ID
- state-ex-rel-steven-schnell-v-honorable-rebecca-richardson-2026-09-08
- Observed outcome
- Writ denied; counsel sanctioned $1,750 under Missouri Rule 55.03 for filing fictitious and unsupported case citations.
- Known monetary consequence
- $1
Why this matter warrants attention
Fabricated: Case Law | Counsel cited two nonexistent or incorrectly cited cases to support the proposition that all litigation involving one family must be heard by a single court. The court could not identify authority supporting that proposition and found that the citations misrepresented the law. Outcome: Writ denied; counsel sanctioned $1,750 under Missouri Rule 55.03 for filing fictitious and unsupported case citations.. Relator’s counsel, Jenna Rohr Conley, cited two cases in support of a venue-transfer argument. The citations did not correspond to the cases identified, and the cases located by the court under the same names did not support the asserted proposition. Conley admitted using generative AI to research the authorities and failing to verify the citations. The court held that filing nonexistent and unsupported authorities violated the reasonable-inquiry and existing-law requirements of Rule 55.03 and ordered Conley to pay $1,750 in reasonable attorney’s fees incurred by the underlying petitioners.
The structured public record identifies fake citations and misrepresented authority and records Writ denied; counsel sanctioned $1,750 under Missouri Rule 55.03 for filing fictitious and unsupported case citations.. The linked source controls the precise reasoning and procedural context.
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Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Trial
- Monetary
- AI attribution
- Not Established
- Recorded tool
- Unidentified
- Known monetary consequence
- $1
- Procedural posture
- Writ denied; counsel sanctioned $1,750 under Missouri Rule 55.03 for filing fictitious and unsupported case citations.
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