Fabricated — does not exist
Lynch v. U.S. Postal Service does not exist — a fabricated AI citation
Cited as: 2016 WL 7338415 (N
This case is fabricated
Lynch v. U.S. Postal Service was identified as an AI-fabricated citation in Jeramiah Brown v. Fat Dough Incorp., doing business as Dominos Pizza (N.D. New York) on 2025-09-17. 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: ChatGPT.
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