Ex Parte Lee
Ex Parte Lee 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
- Texas CA
- Date
- July 19, 2023
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- No sanction; judicial warning; affirmed
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The Court of Appeals found that the defendant's brief cited cases that do not exist in the Southwest Reporter and sent the reader to unrelated cases, and that the argument section appeared to have possibly been prepared by artificial intelligence. The court declined to issue a show cause order or to report counsel to the State Bar of Texas, and affirmed the trial court after finding the brief inadequate.
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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