Gharbi v. Williams does not exist — a fabricated AI citation

“Gharbi v. Williams”, attributed to Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal at 919 So. 2d 595, does not exist at that citation. It is the second of two fabricated Florida appellate authorities the court identified in the same Edwards v. De Cubas & Lewis, P.A. filing — the other being Mathews v. Ketchum, purportedly a Second DCA decision from a different year.

Filing two separate fake citations from two different Florida appellate districts in one document is a meaningfully different fact pattern than a single isolated fabrication: it points toward a research process — human, AI-assisted, or both — that generated a list of supporting authority without any of it being checked against Florida's actual reporter system before the brief went out. The Middle District of Florida's order treated both as equally deemed nonexistent, without needing to determine which specific tool or step produced them.

Neither “Gharbi” nor “Williams” is an unusual party name in Florida litigation, and a caption like this could plausibly describe dozens of real disputes — which is exactly why the specific citation, not just the case name, is what has to be checked. At 919 So. 2d 595, nothing exists. Because this fabrication appeared in the same filing as the equally fake Mathews v. Ketchum, the Middle District of Florida's order treated the two as a single credibility problem rather than two isolated slips, which is generally how courts weigh repeated, rather than one-off, citation failures.