Jamie Lee Saunders v. Albertsons/Safeway, LLC
Jamie Lee Saunders v. Albertsons/Safeway, LLC 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. Colorado
- Date
- April 16, 2026
- Party
- Pro Se Litigant
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- AI-citation sanction declined; pro se litigant warned; expert-fee cost award entered separately
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The court noted that the pro se plaintiff relied on a fictional, AI-generated case citation, which she acknowledged and apologized for, and warned that future filings citing hallucinated cases may be stricken without further analysis. The court declined to strike her motion on that basis. On the underlying cost motion the court ordered the defendant to pay the expert $1,125 for preparation work; no monetary sanction was tied to the AI issue.
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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