Yasiel Puig Valdes v. All3Media America, LLC, et al.
SCA California (Los Angeles) · Oct 15, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- state
- Court
- SCA California (Los Angeles)
- Record ID
- yasiel-puig-valdes-v-all3media-america-llc-et-al-2025-10-15
- Observed outcome
- Referral
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
Fabricated: Case Law | Opposition cited a non-existent case 'Edwards v. Hearst Corp. (1991) 53 Cal.3d 30, 43'; court confirmed it does not exist and counsel admitted it appeared after using ChatGPT. Outcome: Referral.
The record concerns whether authorities presented to the decision-maker existed and could be verified. The tracked outcome is Referral; the linked source controls the precise reasoning.
Ban ChatGPT for legal research — admitting its use after the fact escalates from fines to bar referrals.
Failure modes and consequences
- Fake Citations
- Appellate
- Bar Referral
- Professional
- AI attribution
- Reported
- Recorded tool
- ChatGPT
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Referral
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What this record does—and does not—establish
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The record summarizes the outcome described in the linked public source. The recorded link is a secondary or other public source and should be checked against the docket where available. This page is not a substitute for the complete docket, subsequent history, or jurisdiction-specific advice.
Latest evidence review: Secondary Source Only (medium confidence).
Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify the existence, citation, court, and precedential status of every authority before filing.
- Escalate unresolved verification failures before filing and preserve the responsible reviewer's signoff record.
- Apply the same source-checking controls to ChatGPT output as to any other research input.
- Read the linked source and subsequent docket history before relying on this record for legal work.