Sanction teardown · SC Connecticut, USA · 2026-03-31
Mohamed Hussain et al. v. Mansoor Quraishi et al.
What happened
In SC Connecticut, 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:
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Fabricated (Case Law)The court identified multiple case citations in the brief that did not exist and labeled them as AI-generated/fabricated; court listed eight problematic citations in its order to show cause (Docket Entry 123).
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False Quotes (Case Law)The court found quotations attributed to cases in the brief that the court determined did not exist in the cited authorities (false quotes generated by AI).
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Misrepresented (Case Law)The brief contained incorrect or misleading citations that misrepresented precedent or pointed to the wrong authorities; court noted citation errors in the order to show cause.
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
Orde to Explain
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/1958/Hussain_v._Mansoor_USA_31_March_2026.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).