AZ Court of Appeals: Citing fake AI-generated cases can get you sanctioned, no matter your intent

By: Jim Small

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: July 16, 2026

Words: 652

Last Updated: 5 days, 12 hours ago

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The Arizona Court of Appeals put lawyers and self-represented litigants alike on notice: If you let artificial intelligence write your legal brief and don’t check whether the cases it cites are real, you can be sanctioned for it — even if you never meant to mislead anyone.

“Submission of hallucinated case citations — intentional or unintentional — is unjustifiable. To accept a defense of lack of ill intent would legitimize reckless indifference to the truth …

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