Mortazavi v. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Mortazavi v. Booz Allen Hamilton, 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
- C.D. Cal.
- Date
- October 30, 2024
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Monetary sanction: $2,500 plus California State Bar notification
- Penalty
- $2,500 in monetary penalties.
What the record shows
The court found that plaintiff's counsel's motion to remand relied on what the court described as a fabricated case and fabricated quotations from the complaint, and that counsel disclosed using AI to prepare the motion without the required disclosure, clearly violating Rule 11. The court sanctioned counsel $2,500, payable to the Clerk, and ordered her to notify the California State Bar of the sanction with a copy of the order.
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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