Fabricated — does not exist
Equilon Enters. v. Ford Motor Co. does not exist — a fabricated AI citation
Cited as: 2010 UT 44
This case is fabricated
Equilon Enters. v. Ford Motor Co. was identified as an AI-fabricated citation in Black Oak Capital BOCA, LLC v. Paul Evans, LLC, et al. (D. Utah) on 2025-12-04. The court found the citation does not exist in any real reporter or docket. If you encounter this citation in a brief, memo, or AI-generated research output, treat it as conclusively fake.
AI system implicated: Implied.
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