Jacob Doe v. The University of North Carolina System
Jacob Doe v. The University of North Carolina System 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. North Carolina
- Date
- November 10, 2025
- 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
Acting sua sponte, the court identified citations in plaintiff's filings that appeared to be incorrect characterizations of cited material and some that might constitute AI hallucinations, including two cases that do not appear to exist and quoted material that does not exist in the cases purportedly quoted. The court ordered plaintiff's counsel to appear and show cause why they should not be sanctioned.
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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