Rights and Bureaucracy · News · 🇧🇷 Brazil
When the "Rapporteur" Cited by AI Was a Bar Owner
A judge in Concórdia (SC) discovered that the rapporteur of a ruling cited in a filing was actually a bar owner.
- Profession
- Lawyer, Party to a Lawsuit
- Tools
- IA generativa
- Source
- migalhas.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- October 20, 2025
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
In a labor lawsuit, the filing contained nonexistent case summaries, scholarly citations and a judge. The hotel's defense noticed, and the judge checked on his own.
How it went
The worker was fined R$3,700 for bad faith, showing that the error also falls on the client.
Good to know
If you hire a lawyer, ask whether they use AI and how they check citations.
The prompt
For each precedent in this list [paste], tell me where I can verify that it exists (website, case number, court). Don't make anything up: if you're not sure, write 'not verified'.
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