Willie C. Fortune v. CTA Certified Transmission
Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District · Sep 1, 2026
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District
- Record ID
- willie-c-fortune-v-cta-certified-transmission-2026-09-01
- Observed outcome
- Appeal dismissed for pervasive briefing deficiencies, fictitious cases, and inaccurate legal citations.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
Fabricated: Case Law | The appellant cited three completely fictitious cases in his brief. One was cited five times, another twice, and the third once; the court found that the nonexistent authorities constituted spurious citations and a flagrant violation of the duty of candor. Outcome: Appeal dismissed for pervasive briefing deficiencies, fictitious cases, and inaccurate legal citations.. The pro se appellant submitted an appellate brief containing three completely fictitious cases, inaccurate citations, irrelevant authorities, incorrect pin cites, and substantive misstatements of the holdings of cited cases. The court held that the pervasive deficiencies and reliance on nonexistent case law prevented meaningful appellate review and violated the applicable briefing and certification rules. The appeal was dismissed.
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Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Misrepresented Authority
- Trial
- Case Dismissed
- AI attribution
- Reported
- Recorded tool
- AI (implied, unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Appeal dismissed for pervasive briefing deficiencies, fictitious cases, and inaccurate legal citations.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
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