Jane Doe, et al. v. Lincoln Consolidated Schools, et al.
Jane Doe, et al. v. Lincoln Consolidated Schools, et al. 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. Michigan
- Date
- March 23, 2026
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Costs and fees shifted to plaintiffs' counsel
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The court found that plaintiffs' citation to 'Doe v. Univ. of Mich., No. 18-11914, 2019 WL 11793988' could not be substantiated and appeared to be an AI hallucination that counsel failed to verify, and was not persuaded by the explanation that it was an inadvertent 'Frankenstein' citation. The court ordered plaintiffs' counsel, not the plaintiffs, to reimburse defendants' counsel for reasonable costs and fees.
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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