Xavier Jamal Smith v. Santander Consumer USA Inc.
N.D. Indiana · Nov 4, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- N.D. Indiana
- Record ID
- xavier-jamal-smith-v-santander-consumer-usa-inc-2025-11-04
- Observed outcome
- The Magistrate Judge recommended that the District Court grant the defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint in its entirety and deny the plaintiff's motion to alter judgment.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The Court identified that the pro se plaintiff submitted fabricated legal citations in his filings. While the Court permitted the filing of a 'Case Law Verification Index,' it explicitly warned that this did not validate the existence of the cited cases and recommended dismissal of the underlying complaint for failure to state a claim.
Fabricated: Case Law | Plaintiff cited 'Citizens Nat’l Bank of Paris v. Midwest Agri-Dev. Corp., 887 F.2d 1128, 1134 (7th Cir. 1989)'; the Court found the reporter citation corresponds to an unrelated First Circuit opinion, no Seventh Circuit case by that name from 1989 appears to exist, and it could not locate any case containing the quoted language.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in N.D. Indiana, with the listed outcome: no adjudicated outcome recorded.
Failure modes and consequences
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- Fabricated Quotes
- Contract
- Trial
- None Adjudicated
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- AI (implied, unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge recommending dismissal of the complaint and denial of a motion to alter judgment.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
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Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.