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Florida · state appellate court · 2025

Earl Takefman v. the Pickleball Club, LLC

District Court of Appeal of Florida, 27 August 2025. 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. 27 August 2025DATED
  4. Docket. No. 3D2025-0474DOCKET
  5. Documents. one document, 3 passages quoted belowON FILE
  6. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Published opinion, 27 August 2025 · source · PDF · 4 pages

2d DCA 2022) (“In most cases, a stranger to the attorney-client relationship lacks standing to seek disqualification. ”). We write, however, to address an issue of growing concern —the proliferation of fake or hallucinated case cit ations in court filings. We aren’t the only court in Florida to address this problem.

Fla. July 17, 2025) (explaining that repeated citations to hallucinated cases “ constitutes repeated, abusive, bad-faith conduct” warranting sanctions); O’Brien v. Flick, No.

3d 1185, 1188 (Fla. 3d DCA 2024) (imposing sanctions against pro se appellant based on the filing of “ fictitious and nonexistent case law ,” and collecting federal and state cases from around the country in which sanctions have been imposed for the submission of fictitious case law). Takefman’s initial brief cites cases that do not exist: “Hernandez v.

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