Juan Villalovos-Gutierrez, et al. v. Gerard Van De Pol (1)
Juan Villalovos-Gutierrez, et al. v. Gerard Van De Pol (1) 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. California
- Date
- December 3, 2025
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Caution regarding fictitious citations; motion to compel granted
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
In granting the plaintiffs' motion to compel, the court cautioned defendants' counsel regarding fictitious or inaccurate case citations, noting that failure to confirm the existence and accuracy of authority created by an AI tool or taken from an indirect source is a potential ground for sanctions. No sanction was imposed.
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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