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Florida · state appellate court · 2026

Bruno Roberto Rodriguez v. Kathryn Louise Rodriguez

District Court of Appeal of Florida, 10 April 2026. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

Case record · Fla. Dist. Ct. App.

  1. Court. District Court of Appeal of FloridaCOURT
  2. Level. state appellate courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 10 April 2026DATED
  4. Docket. No. 6D2025-3086DOCKET
  5. Documents. one document, 4 passages quoted belowON FILE
  6. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

Retrieved · the text below was read from the source documents on that day.

What the court wrote

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Published opinion, 10 April 2026 · source · PDF · 6 pages

Some of the cited cases both exist and are cited for legal propositions that the cited cases actually represent. Some of the cited cases do not exist. And some of the cited cases are cited for legal propositions that the cited cases do not actually represent.

And some of the cited cases are cited for legal propositions that the cited cases do not actually represent. We recently addressed a similar scenario where a pro se litigant submitted a filing to this Court that cited to non-existent cases, as well as cited to actual cases which did not stand for the legal propositions asserted in the filing . See Hessert v.

3 produced by pro se litigants and attorneys alike with the assistance of AI that cite non-existent cases or that cite actual cases for inaccurate legal propositions.” Hessert, 2026 WL 785016, at *1.

Ultimately, in Hessert we issued an order to show cause why the pro se litigant in that case should 5 not be sanctioned for filing a petition that contained non-existent cases and that cited to cases for inaccurate legal propositions.

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