Fadi El Bitar v. Julio Hernandez
Fadi El Bitar v. Julio Hernandez 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
- W.D. Washington
- Date
- June 2, 2026
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Google Gemini
- Outcome
- Monetary penalty: $1,000; public reprimand
- Penalty
- $1,000 in monetary penalties.
What the record shows
Petitioner's counsel acknowledged that legal interns used Google Gemini to generate text containing quotations that do not exist and were presented as binding Ninth Circuit precedent. The court held the signing attorney responsible, imposed a $1,000 sanction payable to the Clerk, issued a public reprimand, and discharged the order to show cause.
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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