Ohio · state appellate court · 2025

State ex rel. Eldridge v. Kilbane

Ohio Court of Appeals, 31 October 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. Ohio Court of AppealsCOURT
  2. Level. state appellate courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 31 October 2025DATED
  4. Docket. No. 115338DOCKET
  5. Judge. RyanJUDGE
  6. Reporter. 2025 Ohio 5053CITE
  7. Documents. one document, 2 passages quoted belowON FILE
  8. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Published opinion, 31 October 2025 · source · PDF · 10 pages

Eldridge also claimed that her attorney did not receive proper notice and that she was prohibited from presenting evidence. In this brief in opposition, Eldridge acknowledged that her writ petition contained citation errors and hallucinated cases because she “relied on assistance that proved inad equate” and requested leave to amend her petition with correct legal authority.1 The judge filed a reply brief on September 15, 2025. For the following reasons, this court grants the respondent’s motion to dismiss.

On April 10, 2023, Soretha commenced a forcible entry and detaine r action against her father, Eldridge v. Eldridge, 1 A “hallucinated case” is a made -up, fictitious case generated by “artificial intelligence, AI.” Cleveland M.C. No.

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