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Texakoma Financial, a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case in the Eastern District of Texas, was filed in response to a summary judgment motion. The opposing party's reply identified a fictitious case, fictitious quotes and unsupported propositions in the response. The court issued an order to show cause requiring the plaintiff's attorney to appear with copies of the cases she cited. The attorney attributed the citation to a law clerk and a paralegal. The source reports that generative AI may have been used in drafting, though the attorney could not confirm it. On June 11, 2026 the court imposed financial sanctions and a public reprimand, and ordered verification of authorities in future filings and CLE on AI ethics.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null,"primary_risk":"RK14"},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"minor","severity_because":"minor: contained to one case between the parties; no third party is stated as affected.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://natlawreview.com/article/holy-sanctions-genai-sanctions-come-tcpaworld","publisher":"The National Law Review","date":"2026-06-19","type":"press","title":"HOLY SANCTIONS!: GenAI Sanctions Come to the TCPAWorld - The National Law Review","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"C","event.detection_method":"C","context.country":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.primary_risk":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In Matt McCormick v. Texakoma Financial, Inc., 4:25-cv-773 (E.D. Tex. June 11, 2026), U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant issued financial sanctions and publicly reprimanded an attorney for violating Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 for, amongst other improper uses of generative AI, citing a case that did not exist."}],"event.detection_method":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In its Reply, Defendant noted, amongst other issues, that Plaintiff’s Response contained a fictitious case, fictitious quotes, and unsupported propositions."}],"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In Matt McCormick v. Texakoma Financial, Inc., 4:25-cv-773 (E.D. Tex. June 11, 2026), U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant issued financial sanctions and publicly reprimanded an attorney for violating Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 for, amongst other improper uses of generative AI, citing a case that did not exist."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"In Matt McCormick v. Texakoma Financial, Inc., 4:25-cv-773 (E.D. Tex. 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Ginsburg (“Ginsburg”), to appear in person with copies of the cases she cited."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Although her filed response to the order to show cause stated “it appears my law clerk did use AI to assist in drafting,” at the show cause hearing, Ginsburg said she could not know for certain if AI was used as the law clerk who drafted the original Response was no longer with her firm."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"In Matt McCormick v. Texakoma Financial, Inc., 4:25-cv-773 (E.D. Tex. June 11, 2026), U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant issued financial sanctions and publicly reprimanded an attorney for violating Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 for, amongst other improper uses of generative AI, citing a case that did not exist."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Single press source (National Law Review blog post). The sources do not name the generative AI tool, model, or developer, and do not say whether an autonomous agent was involved, so agent_involved and failure_class were left out. The date the brief was filed and the date the error occurred are not stated, so date_occurred was left out; the article date (2026-06-19) was not used as a disclosure date because no sentence in the source states it. The responsible party is not stated and was left out. The attorney's account (a law clerk or paralegal drafted or filed the wrong draft) is contested by the court and the article's author, and is reported here only as her claim. The severity tier 'minor' is my judgement: the scope is one case and no third party is stated as affected. The control I7 failure is my mapping of the attorney's failure to verify citations; the article does not name a control. The remediation is advice from the article's author and the court's sanction orders, not a change reported by the party. Court-ordered remediation is recorded in event.remediation. Context.industry 'legal services' is inferred from the article's subject. Timeline dates for the show-cause order, the response, and the reply are not stated. 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