In re: Telexfree Securities Litigation
In re: Telexfree Securities Litigation 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
- D. Massachusetts
- Date
- February 13, 2026
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Order to show cause
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The court found that plaintiff's pleadings contained misrepresentations of case law bearing "the clear hallmark of artificial intelligence hallucinations," noting this was not the first time Attorney Passatempo had misrepresented the law to the court. Counsel was directed to address the misrepresentations at a status conference and to show cause why the court should not impose sanctions and/or refer the matter to the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.
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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