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Evans, et al. v. Robertson et al. (3)

E.D. Michigan 20 November 2025
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Pro Se Litigant
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Implied / unconfirmed

Hallucinated Content

Fabricated

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    Cited a Michigan Court of Appeals case the court could not locate; treated as a fabricated case citation.

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    Cited an Eighth Circuit opinion that does not exist; court determined the citation refers to a different district-court filing.

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    Repeated citation used four times that the court could not find; treated as fabricated.

  4. Case Law

    Citation identified by the court as not accurately representing an existing Sixth Circuit opinion.

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    Cited an E.D. Mich. opinion that does not exist and quoted language not found in any located opinion.

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    Cited a district-court opinion with a reporter citation that corresponds to a different case; court found the cited case does not exist as stated.

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    Cited multiple opinions and entries that the court could not locate and deemed factitious (repeatedly used in the brief).

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    Citation the court could not locate and treated as fabricated.

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    Cited a Ninth Circuit opinion that does not exist under the given citation; court identified it as fabricated.

False Quotes

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    Provided a quotation attributed to Walden v. Fiore that does not appear in the opinion; court identified it as a false quote.

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    Quoted Seay v. TVA about 'sur-replies are not permitted' but the court found the quotation does not appear in the opinion.

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    Attributed a quotation to Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Ward that the court found does not exist in the opinion.

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    Attributed a quotation to United States v. Shaffer Equip. Co. that the court found to be fabricated.

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    Quoted Ready Transp. as stating that a stricken document 'ceases to exist for any purpose,' which the court found does not appear in that opinion.

Misrepresented

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    Cited a real Sixth Circuit case but relied on a proposition the opinion does not support; court characterized this as a misrepresentation of the authority.


Outcome

Multiple filings stricken from the recordRevocation of online upload privileges

Notes

Show Cause Order is here.


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