Sanction teardown · Trib. Milano, Italy · 2026-06-05
R.G. 48964/2025 (opposizione all'esecuzione)
What happened
In Trib. Milano, Italy, 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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False Quotes (Case Law)Three jurisprudential 'massime' in the defendant's brief were cited as from Cass. 21432/2021 but the cited proposition does not match the actual decision; court found the citation misattributed.
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False Quotes (Case Law)A referenced maxim attributed to Cass. 7024/2017 was found not to correspond to the content of that decision; court treated it as a misquotation/misattribution.
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False Quotes (Case Law)A cited maxim ascribed to Cass. 24058/2004 did not reflect the actual holding of that decision; court concluded the citation was erroneous or misrepresented.
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
Impact on recoverable costs
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/2625/2026-06-05_TRIBUNALE_MILANO.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).