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New York · federal district court · 2025

Peak v. Maraj-Petty

District Court, S.D. New York, 26 November 2025. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

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  1. Court. District Court, S.D. New YorkCOURT
  2. Level. federal district courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 26 November 2025DATED
  4. Docket. No. 1:25-cv-07552DOCKET
  5. Judge. Vernon Speede BroderickJUDGE
  6. Documents. one document, 2 passages quoted belowON FILE
  7. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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What the court wrote

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Docket entry 33, 26 November 2025 · source · PDF · 5 pages

Docket text. ORDER: For these reasons, the 45-day stay in this case will continue, as ordered in my previous Opinion, and Plaintiff is cautioned to conform to Rule 4(J) of my Individual Rules if using generative AI to conduct legal research during the course of this litigation. SO ORDERED. (Signed by Judge Vernon S. Broderick on 11/26/2025) (rro)

(Doc. 29 at 1.) However, I could not find this quote in Action S.A.; it simply does not exist. Moreover, the circumstances here are markedly different from Action S.A..

July 9, 2025). Here, each of Plaintiff’s case quotations in his second opposition letter, filed on November 12, 2025, cannot be found in the cited cases, suggesting that these quotations might be “hallucinated,” a term used for citations produced by AI “that conform to the Bluebook, but ultimately are not real.” Benjamin v. Costco Wholesale Corp., 779 F.

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