Erica Whitesock v. Bird Global, Inc., and the City of Austin

Erica Whitesock, Individually, and on behalf of Christopher Whitesock, decedent v. Bird Rides, Inc.; Third Lane Mobility, Inc. d/b/a Bird Global, Inc.; and the City of Austin, Cause No. D-1-GN-25-011111, Travis County, Texas, 250th Judicial District (Judge Cory Liu), order granting the City of Austin's plea to the jurisdiction, signed June 8, 2026. Copy of primary document: `~/workspace/goals/ai-sanctions-case-monitoring/files/sources/D-155-whitesock-v-city-of-austin.pdf`.

Attorney Bradford Klager admitted to the court that a fake quotation of the Texas Tort Claims Act in his response, containing a nonexistent exception to governmental immunity, was completely fabricated by a generative AI chatbot and blindly copied and pasted without checking its veracity. The filing also misrepresented a private-landowner liability statute as a governmental-immunity waiver.

The attorney's duty of candor and reasonable inquiry. Sanctions: Klager and his law firm Hilliard Law jointly and severally liable for $10,000 in the City of Austin's attorney's fees, and Klager ordered to provide a copy of the order to his client.

Never paste AI-generated legal quotations into a filing without checking them against the actual statute or opinion. A hallucinated statute exception on a jurisdictional issue is the worst possible place for an unverified quote.

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