The Doc App, Inc. d/b/a My Florida Green v. Leafwell, Inc. (1)
M.D. Florida · Nov 26, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- M.D. Florida
- Record ID
- the-doc-app-inc-d-b-a-my-florida-green-v-leafwell-inc-1-2025-11-26
- Observed outcome
- The court ordered the attorney to pay the defendant's reasonable attorney's fees and costs, complete mandatory CLE, attach the sanction order to all future filings in the district, and referred the attorney to the Florida Bar.
- Known monetary consequence
- $1
Why this matter warrants attention
The court sanctioned attorney Jason Castro for submitting filings containing fabricated case law and misrepresented authorities. The court ordered the attorney to pay the defendant's reasonable attorney's fees and costs, complete mandatory continuing legal education, attach the court's sanction order to all future filings in the district, and referred the attorney to the Florida Bar for further disciplinary action.
Fabricated: Case Law | Motion cited Henson v. Allison Transmission with reporter/citation No. 6:16-cv-1223-Orl-41DCI, 2017 WL 59085 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 5, 2017), which the Court confirmed does not exist; counsel later said he intended a different Henson (2008 WL 239153), but that case does not support the propositions cited. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Motion cited State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Pressley as 727 So. 2d 1019, 1020 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999) (yielded nothing in Westlaw); counsel later pointed to 28 So. 3d 105 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010), but that decision does not contain the quoted phrase or discuss the statute counsel attributed to it. || False Quotes: Case Law | At least two quotations in the Motion were presented as direct quotes but the cited cases do not contain the quoted language (counsel claimed an earlier draft/paraphrase error).
This record documents a Lawyer filing issue in M.D. Florida, with the listed outcome: Costs Order; CLE Order; Order to file Order in any future filing; Bar Referral.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- Misrepresented Authority
- Bar Referral
- Contract
- Trial
- AI attribution
- Unspecified
- Recorded tool
- Unidentified
- Known monetary consequence
- $1
- Procedural posture
- The court issued an Order to Show Cause regarding sanctions following the filing of a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order containing fabricated and misrepresented legal authorities. The plaintiff subsequently filed a notice of voluntary dismissal. The court retained jurisdiction to rule on the sanctions motion and issued an Opinion and Order imposing sanctions.
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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.
- Escalate and correct a suspect filing promptly, with a documented response.