Angelica E. Cruz et al. v. United States of America
Angelica E. Cruz et al. v. United States of America is one matter in the Veritas record of US court proceedings involving AI-generated citations that could not be verified against the reporters named. The summary below is drawn from the underlying court document, linked at the foot of this page.
- Court
- C.D. California
- Date
- December 16, 2025
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Order to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The court issued an order to show cause after an expert-exclusion opposition included a case citation that neither the defendant nor the court could locate. At the hearing, plaintiff's counsel attributed the citation to unreachable outside counsel and confirmed he signed the brief without independently checking the citations.
This entry reflects the court document as filed. The citations at issue could not be located in the reporters named at the time of the order. The reading here is descriptive of the public record and is not legal advice.
Source documents
The test this filing did not run
Every matter in this record shares one mechanism: a citation that did not resolve to an opinion in the reporter named, in a brief that was filed before any verification step ran. Veritas runs that step. The Filing Risk Scanner extracts each citation, resolves it against reporter and public-record sources, and returns a verdict on each one — located, partial, or not located in reporter — before the brief is signed.
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