ByoPlanet International v. Johansson and Gilstrap
ByoPlanet International v. Johansson and Gilstrap 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
- S.D. Florida
- Date
- July 15, 2025
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT
- Outcome
- Attorney ordered to pay $85,567.75 in fees; bar referral; cases dismissed
- Penalty
- $85,567 in monetary penalties.
What the record shows
Following a prior sanctions order in which the court found that counsel used generative AI to develop what the court described as hallucinated cases and fabricated quotations, the court fixed the fee award. It ordered counsel to pay $36,663.00 to two defendants and $48,904.75 to a third, totaling $85,567.75, payable in full within 90 days, and denied the requested payment schedule.
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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