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DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings
- Occurred
- Mar 2, 2026
- Published
- Mar 7, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In Fivehouse v. U.S. Department of Defense, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudy Renfer filed a response brief that the court reportedly said contained fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings. Renfer reportedly admitted he had used AI to help draft the inaccurate filing after losing an earlier draft. The court reportedly also identified similar fabricated quotations in other filings signed by Renfer.
Developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- Rudy Renfer
Harmed parties
- Judicial integrity
- Epistemic integrity
- Derence V. Fivehouse
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Attorney used AI to fabricate legal citations, leading to court sanctions and professional misconduct allegations.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8