Carol L. Williams v. Tracy Honl
Carol L. Williams v. Tracy Honl 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
- CA Oregon
- Date
- April 22, 2026
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Monetary sanction: $8,044.25 attorney fees; opening brief struck
- Penalty
- $8,044 in monetary penalties.
What the record shows
The Oregon Court of Appeals struck the appellant's opening brief, which the court found contained fabricated authority, and awarded the respondent attorney fees of $8,044.25, payable by the appellant's attorneys, as a compensatory sanction for the fees incurred responding to that authority and the show-cause order. The court declined to award additional sanctions payable to the court.
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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