Compiled by Citation Safe (Digital Empire Holdings LLC) from the court’s published sanction order (decided September 3, 2026). Quotes and case details come from the order itself — check the primary source before relying on them.

Sanction teardown · WSA w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim, Poland · 2026-09-03

I SA/Go 210/26

What happened

In WSA w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim, Poland, a filing relied on an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool to help draft legal argument. The court identified the following problems with the citations in that filing:

False Quotes (Case Law)

The filing falsely attributed to NSA case I FSK 1142/19 a proposition that 100% prepayment eliminates economic grounds for finding inadequate diligence and that the supplier need not investigate the payer’s accounts or country. The court found that this quotation did not appear in the cited judgment or any other judgment.
Misrepresented (Case Law)

The filing described NSA case I FSK 1142/19 as a 5 July 2023 decision involving a factually identical situation. The court verified that it was actually decided on 19 September 2019 and concerned only the incidental issue of extending the deadline for a VAT refund.
False Quotes (Case Law)

The court stated that other judgments cited in the filing were also presented with purported quotations that did not in fact appear in those decisions, although it gave I FSK 1142/19 as the detailed example.

Which AI tool

an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool. Note: Charlotin's public database records tool attribution only where a court order, brief, or reporting on the matter states it explicitly; "unidentified" or "implied" means the record indicates AI use but does not name a specific product — we do not guess.

Outcome

Admonishment

How Citation Safe would have caught this

Citation Safe runs three deterministic layers before a brief is filed: (1) does the citation exist against CourtListener's database of published opinions, (2) if quoted, does that exact language appear in the source, (3) does the cited case actually support the proposition it is cited for. Fabricated case citations fail Layer 1. Fabricated or misattributed quotations fail Layer 2 even when the underlying case is real. Misrepresented holdings — a real case cited for a proposition it does not support — are the target of Layer 3. None of these checks involve asking another language model whether the citation looks right; they are lookups and text-matches against the actual source, which is why a hallucinated citation has to survive a direct lookup against the authoritative source — not another model's opinion — to earn a VERIFIED stamp; our measured false-verify rate is published live at /quality.

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Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/3225/I_SA_Go_210_26_-_Wyrok_WSA_w_Gorzowie_Wlkp._z_2026-09-03.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).