Robert Harris v. Elementis Specialties, Inc.
Robert Harris v. Elementis Specialties, 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. California
- Date
- April 17, 2026
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the order
- Outcome
- Caution / explicit warning; sanctions motion denied
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The court found that defendant's counsel's failure to verify cited authority was inexcusable, noting the use of AI resulted in several citation errors including a hallucinated citation, but concluded it could not find the knowing or reckless conduct required to impose sanctions. The court denied the sanctions motion and expressly warned defendant and counsel that it would consider the incident in future litigation.
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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