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Missouri · state appellate court · 2024

Royce Jones v. Simploy, Inc., and Division of Employment Security

Missouri Court of Appeals, 24 September 2024. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

Case record · Mo. Ct. App.

  1. Court. Missouri Court of AppealsCOURT
  2. Level. state appellate courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 24 September 2024DATED
  4. Docket. No. ED112394DOCKET
  5. Judge. James M. Dowd, P.J., and Cristian M. Stevens, J., concur.JUDGE
  6. Documents. one document, 3 passages quoted belowON FILE
  7. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Published opinion, 24 September 2024 · source · PDF · 11 pages

2008), which has nothing to do with whether absences for medical reasons constitute misconduct, as Claimant asserts. Even more egregious are the citations to cases that do not exist, such as Caldwell v. Div. of Employment Sec., 130 S.W.3d 420 (Mo.

Giving Claimant the benefit of the doubt, we suspect such citations were generated by artificial intelligence rather than the result of a deliberate attempt to mislead the Court. We strongly caution that “[c]iting nonexistent case law or misrepresenting the holdings of a case is making a false statement to a court[;] [i]t does not matter if [generative A.I.] told you so.” Kruse v. Karlen, No.

6 Kruse v. Karlen, the appellant’s brief contained numerous citations to fabricated, non-existent cases. Id. at *3.

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