Leonard Colbert v. County of Riverside
Leonard Colbert v. County of Riverside 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
- C.D. California
- Date
- March 31, 2026
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Warning
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The court could not locate the statutory language plaintiff's opposition attributed to Cal. Gov't Code section 845.4, in that section or any other part of the California Government Code, and found no case containing the quoted language. The court stated this suggested counsel may have used artificial intelligence to draft the opposition and failed to confirm accuracy, and reminded counsel of their duties under Cal. R. Prof. Conduct 3.3(a)(1) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b)(2).
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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