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Hawaii · federal district court · 2026

Mau v. City and County of Honolulu

District Court, D. Hawaii, 30 January 2026. 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, D. HawaiiCOURT
  2. Level. federal district courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 30 January 2026DATED
  4. Docket. No. 1:24-cv-00253DOCKET
  5. Judge. Gonzalo P. CurielJUDGE
  6. Documents. one document, 3 passages quoted belowON FILE
  7. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Docket entry 194, 30 January 2026 · source · PDF · 4 pages

Docket text. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY DEFENDANT SHERI JEAN TANAKA'S ATTORNEYS SHOULD NOT BE SANCTIONED - Signed by SENIOR JUDGE GONZALO P. CURIEL on 1/30/2026. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Tanaka's attorney(s) shall show cause why he or she should not be sanctioned pursuant to: (1) Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b), (c); and (2) the inherent power of the Court to order sanctions for citing non-existent cases and misstating the law to the Court on or before February 13, 2026. See Mata v. Avianca, Inc., No. 22-CV-1461 (PKC), 2023 WL 3696209, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. May 4, 2023); United States v. Cohen, No. 18-CR-602 (JMF), 2023 WL 8635521, at *1 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 12, 2023). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court reserves the right to call a hearing for this matter based on the evidence received. (eta) (Entered: 01/30/2026)

No. 187 at 14 n.4.) The page citation to Hoang does not exist and the parenthetical explanation is not what the case states. 1 Page numbers are based on the CM/ECF pagination.

Apr. 24, 2025) (order imposing sanctions stating that “an attorney who submits fake cases clearly has not read those nonexistent cases, which is a violation of Rule 11 . . . .”). Rule 11 also requires that an attorney’s reliance on actual cases must be cited for the propositions they were cited and that the arguments are legally tenable.

P. 11(b), (c); and (2) the inherent power of the Court to order sanctions for citing non-existent cases and misstating the law to the Court on or before February 13, 2026. See Mata v.

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