Judge Defaults Trademark Defendant For Counsel’s Repeated Citations To Fake Cases

( February 12, 2026, 8:36 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — In a dispute arising from the theft and resale of trademarked children’s toys, a New York federal judge issued case-terminating sanctions by issuing a default order against one of the defendant entities after its counsel was repeatedly chastised by the court for filing briefs riddled with false citations generated via artificial intelligence....