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Sanction teardown · CA Texas, USA · 2026-08-18

Kourradi v. Christopher

What happened

In CA Texas, USA, 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:

  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    Citation not locatable on Westlaw; WL identifier 2011 WL 1905858 and appellate number 07-10-00308-CV point to different cases or withdrawn opinions; court deemed the citation at best partially fabricated.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    No Westlaw authority with identifier 2012 WL 2370823; appellate number 09-11-00414-CV is non-existent or refers to different criminal appeal, indicating the citation is fabricated or erroneous.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    No Westlaw authority assigned 2022 WL 1938866; appellate case number 03-21-00523-CV does not match available records, suggesting the citation is fabricated or partially fabricated.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    The WL identifier 2011 WL 1742356 does not exist on Westlaw and the appellate number provided corresponds to a different case, so the citation appears fabricated or inaccurate.

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

Brief Struck; Appeal Dismissed

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/2915/Manny_Kourradi_v._Wyatt_Brian_Christophe_USA_18_August_2026.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).