A former Vallejo police captain

The appellate panel didn't indicate how it might rule on the question of whether preliminary, geotechnical work on the tunnel is an "action" that is separate from the entire project.

(Subscription required) Early this summer, I ran an experiment in which I gave ChatGPT-4 and ChatGPT-5 only the oral argument transcripts from the court's last 25 cases and asked them to predict the outcome and the vote. Here were the results.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday declined to sanction a self-represented litigant over her citation to nonexistent case law in appellate briefing, acknowledging that the action was “serious and sanctionable” but declaring that the requested amount of $10,000 was “grossly excessive” where the fictitious jurisprudence was used to cite correct legal principles and the request was not raised in a formal motion.