Gauthier v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Gauthier v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 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
- E.D. Tex.
- Date
- November 25, 2024
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Claude
- Outcome
- Monetary sanction: $2,000 penalty plus one-hour AI CLE and client/court disclosure
- Penalty
- $2,000 in monetary penalties.
What the record shows
After a show-cause hearing, the court found that plaintiff's counsel, Brandon Monk, submitted a response brief with AI-generated citations to cases and quotations that do not exist; Monk stated he used the tool 'Claude' and that a Lexis AI feature failed to flag the errors. The court ordered Monk to pay a $2,000 penalty into the court registry and to complete a one-hour Texas MCLE course on generative AI in the legal field.
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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