State National Insurance Company, Inc. v. Damon Treadwell, et al.
State National Insurance Company, Inc. v. Damon Treadwell, et al. 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
- N.D. Alabama
- Date
- March 26, 2026
- Party
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- ChatGPT
- Outcome
- Public reprimand / Rule 11 sanction
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty in this order.
What the record shows
The court found, based on its own review and attorney Edward Eugene May, II's admission, that the quotations in his filing could not be located and that attributing them to the cited authority amounted to what the court characterized as false statements of law. May admitted the quotations were hallucinations of one or both of ChatGPT and OpenCase and conceded a lack of diligence. The court imposed a sanction under Rule 11; mindful of May's contrition, it found no greater sanction necessary.
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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