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Disability Rights Mississippi v. Palmer Home for Children

Court
N.D Mississippi
Jurisdiction
USA
Decided
2025-12-19
AI tool
Implied
Outcome
Monetary sanction; CLE requirement; notification to bar and other courts; attorney withdrawal.
Monetary penalty
20883 USD

What was hallucinated

False Quotes: Case Law | Quoted language attributed to SafetyNet does not appear in the opinion and Court found counsel misrepresented the case's holding when relying on the fake quote. || False Quotes: Case Law | Portion of quoted material attributed to the case was not contained in the opinion; counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before filing. || False Quotes: Case Law | Portion of quoted material attributed to the case was not contained in the opinion; counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before filing. || Fabricated: Case Law | Cited case does not exist as listed; actual reported case ends earlier and has no page 696 as cited. || Fabricated: Case Law | Citation 849 F. Supp. 1206 (N.D. Ind. 1994) does not correspond to any existing decision as cited; the case name corresponds to a different citation. || Fabricated: Case Law | Legal citation leads to an unrelated case; the Tanager Place citation as given is not the Tanager Place decision. || False Quotes: Case Law | Portion of quoted material attributed to the opinion does not appear in the case; counsel admitted she did not review the opinion prior to filing. || False Quotes: Case Law | Purported quote was not in the opinion and counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before quoting it.

Sanction teardown · N.D Mississippi, USA · 2025-12-19

Disability Rights Mississippi v. Palmer Home for Children

What happened

In N.D Mississippi, 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:

  • False Quotes (Case Law)
    Quoted language attributed to SafetyNet does not appear in the opinion and Court found counsel misrepresented the case's holding when relying on the fake quote.
  • False Quotes (Case Law)
    Portion of quoted material attributed to the case was not contained in the opinion; counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before filing.
  • False Quotes (Case Law)
    Portion of quoted material attributed to the case was not contained in the opinion; counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before filing.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    Cited case does not exist as listed; actual reported case ends earlier and has no page 696 as cited.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    Citation 849 F. Supp. 1206 (N.D. Ind. 1994) does not correspond to any existing decision as cited; the case name corresponds to a different citation.
  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    Legal citation leads to an unrelated case; the Tanager Place citation as given is not the Tanager Place decision.
  • False Quotes (Case Law)
    Portion of quoted material attributed to the opinion does not appear in the case; counsel admitted she did not review the opinion prior to filing.
  • False Quotes (Case Law)
    Purported quote was not in the opinion and counsel admitted she had not reviewed the case before quoting it.

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

Monetary sanction; CLE requirement; notification to bar and other courts; attorney withdrawal. (monetary penalty: 20883 USD.)

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/1225/Disability_Rights_Mississippi_v._Palmer_Home_USA_19_December_2025.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).

Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/1225/Disability_Rights_Mississippi_v._Palmer_Home_USA_19_December_2025.pdf

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