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Sanction teardown · CA Morón, Argentina · 2026-10-01

P. M. M. c/ G. A., F. M. d. S.H. s/ cobro ordinario de sumas de dinero

What happened

In CA Morón, Argentina, 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:

  • Misrepresented (Case Law)
    The appellant's reference to “Barrio” was not the established SCBA case “Barrios,” C. 124.096; the court noted that the actual Barrios decision concerned the supervening unconstitutionality of articles 7 and 10 of Law 23.928 and did not address the fee-indexation proposition attributed to it.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    The memorial cited a purported SCBA decision, “Colegio de Abogados de La Plata c/ Provincia de Buenos Aires,” also called “Barrio,” dated 05/05/2021, which the court could not locate by caption or docket number and concluded appeared not to exist.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    The citation C. 121.461 was attributed to a 2021 decision supporting updated attorney-fee values, but the court found that docket number belonged to “Bravo Mario Benjamin y Bravo Benjamin Enrique s/ quiebra,” with a last recorded movement in 2017, making the attributed decision impossible on that docket.

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

Appeal dismissed; Bar Referral

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/3166/file-bb5c6210.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).