{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T08:17:20.854Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"appeal-not-heard","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"lawsuit","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-swiss-federal-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-243-page-appeal-appellant-said-was-drafted-with-intensive-chatgpt-support","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Mit einer 243 Seiten umfassenden Eingabe vom 10. September 2026 (Postaufgabe) reicht A.________ Beschwerde in öffentlich-rechtlichen Angelegenheiten'; 'stellt 17 Rechtsbegehren'; 'knapp achteinhalb Seiten'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The appellant filed a 243-page appeal with 17 requests against a cantonal judgment of just under eight and a half pages about his daughter's entitlement to the 2024 electricity-price bonus, posted on 10 September 2026.","causal_attribution":"Established by the published judgment."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Der Beschwerdeführer gibt an, die Ausarbeitung der Rechtsschrift sei nur durch seine \"überdurchschnittliche Intelligenz\" und seine \"analytischen Fähigkeiten\" sowie \"durch die intensive Unterstützung von ChatGPT Plus [...]\" möglich gewesen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'unterstützt von ChatGPT Plus und nach eigenen Angaben dank seiner «überdurchschnittlichen Intelligenz»'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The appellant stated that preparing the brief had been possible only through his above-average intelligence, his analytical skills and the intensive support of ChatGPT Plus.","causal_attribution":"The judgment documents that the appellant made this statement; how much of the brief the tool produced is his account."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Urteil vom 28. September 2026'; 'der Rückgriff auf Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bei der Ausarbeitung der Beschwerdeschrift den Beschwerdeführer nicht von der Einhaltung der allgemeinen Begründungsanforderungen entbindet und keinen Freipass für ausufernde Rechtsschriften bildet'; 'Auf die Beschwerde wird nicht eingetreten.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Das Bundesgericht trat wegen der übermässig weitschweifigen Rechtsschrift nicht auf die Beschwerde ein.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Il Tribunale federale non è entrato nel merito del ricorso, giudicandolo eccessivamente prolisso.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"In judgment 2C_549/2026 of 28 September 2026 the court found the brief excessively prolix, held that recourse to AI in preparing it did not release the appellant from the pleading requirements and was no free pass for sprawling briefs, gave him no period to correct it and declined to hear the appeal.","causal_attribution":"Established by the reasons and operative part of the judgment; both blue News editions report it."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Folglich ist davon auszugehen, dass er absichtlich und ohne nachvollziehbare Gründe eine 243-seitige Beschwerdeschrift eingereicht hat'; 'Es werden keine Gerichtskosten erhoben.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The court treated the length as deliberate because the appellant's covering letter showed he knew the rule on prolix briefs, and it waived court costs.","causal_attribution":"Established by the judgment."}],"effects":[{"label":"a self-represented appellant's federal appeal was not heard after the court found his ChatGPT-assisted brief excessively prolix","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://entscheidsuche.ch/docs/CH_BGer/CH_BGer_002_2C-549-2026_2026-09-28.html","kind":"court_record","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in full in German by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 (HTTP 200); the English assertions are the agent's translation and no human translator reviewed them. The published (anonymised) judgment text; the appellant's brief and covering letter were not available.","independence_group":"bger-2c-549-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schweiz/basler-wehrt-sich-mit-243-seiten-gegen-kurzes-urteil-das-bundesgericht-staunt-li.3641865","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in full in German by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 (HTTP 200); the English assertions are the agent's translation and no human translator reviewed them. blue News reports the judgment; it cites no other source.","independence_group":"bger-2c-549-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.bluewin.ch/it/attualita/svizzera/sono-piu-intelligente-della-media-scrive-243-pagine-con-chatgpt-ma-il-tribunale-federale-lo-boccia-li.3642114","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"it","translation_note":"Read in full in Italian by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 (HTTP 200); the English assertions are the agent's translation and no human translator reviewed them. 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No event country is recorded from the court's seat.","court_countries":["CH"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["CH"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's judgment documents that it declined to hear an appeal whose 243-page brief the appellant said was prepared with intensive ChatGPT Plus support, holding that AI use is no free pass for prolix briefs. The extent of the tool's role rests on the appellant's statement as recorded by the court.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The published judgment records the appellant's own statement that preparing his 243-page brief had been possible through the intensive support of ChatGPT Plus, so the chatbot produced drafting help in his exchanges with it. The court found that brief excessively prolix, said that recourse to AI in preparing it was no free pass for sprawling briefs, and for that reason declined to hear the appeal. The extent of the tool's contribution rests on the appellant's statement; the court does not identify which passages it produced.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Switzerland: Federal Supreme Court refuses to hear a 243-page appeal that the appellant said was drafted with intensive ChatGPT Plus support","summary":"A father in a dispute with the canton of Basel-Stadt over an electricity-price bonus for his newborn daughter filed a 243-page appeal with 17 requests to Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court, about 28 times the length of the cantonal judgment he challenged, which ran to just under eight and a half pages. He told the court that drafting it had been possible only through his \"above-average intelligence\", his analytical skills and the intensive support of ChatGPT Plus. In judgment 2C_549/2026 of 28 September 2026 the presiding judge, sitting alone, found the brief excessively prolix, held that using artificial intelligence did not release him from the pleading requirements and was no free pass for sprawling briefs, refused him a period to shorten it and declined to hear the appeal. No court costs were imposed. blue News reported the judgment on 20 October 2026.","incidentDate":"2026-09-28","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-20","aiSystem":"ChatGPT Plus, which the appellant told the court had given intensive support in drafting his 243-page appeal; the court records his statement and does not say which parts the tool wrote","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the published judgment, the appellant's federal appeal was not heard on the merits after the court found his 243-page brief, which he said was drafted with intensive ChatGPT Plus support, excessively prolix and declined to let him shorten it; no costs were imposed.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the appellant who used ChatGPT Plus to prepare the brief and whose appeal was not heard.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CH","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_dismissed","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://entscheidsuche.ch/docs/CH_BGer/CH_BGer_002_2C-549-2026_2026-09-28.html","primarySourceLabel":"Swiss Federal Supreme Court, judgment 2C_549/2026 of 28 September 2026 (electricity-price bonus), via entscheidsuche.ch","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:06:24.620487+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:06:24.620487+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["switzerland","federal-supreme-court","self-represented-litigant","chatgpt","prolix-brief","appeal-not-heard"]}]}