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February 9, 2026 · AI sanctions database

Kusmin L. Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

Kusmin L. Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines, Inc. 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
CA Tenth Circuit
Date
February 9, 2026
Party
Lawyer
AI tool
ChatGPT
Outcome
Monetary penalty: $1,000
Penalty
$1,000 in monetary penalties.
Fine

What the record shows

The court found that the appellant's brief contained citations to nonexistent cases and attributed propositions or quotations to real cases that did not stand for them or contain the quotations. Amarsingh admitted using ChatGPT as a research and drafting aid, which generated seven citations the court determined did not exist. Considering her candor and remorse, the court imposed a $1,000 sanction.

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

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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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