L.A. Housing Outreach, LLC v. Medoff
L.A. Housing Outreach, LLC v. Medoff 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 California
- Date
- December 17, 2025
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Monetary sanction: $5,070; State Bar referral
- Penalty
- $5,070 in monetary penalties.
What the record shows
After issuing an order to show cause, the Court of Appeal found that attorney Onica Valle Cole filed a reply brief in which the majority of case citations were incorrect in significant ways. The court directed Cole to pay $5,070 in sanctions and addressed her conduct under the California Rules of Court.
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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