AI Risk & Hallucination Cases
A regularly updated digest of documented AI-related risk incidents in legal practice — primarily court cases involving AI-generated citation errors, sanctions, and judicial orders, but also significant malpractice or ethics matters. Each entry summarizes the incident, identifies the AI tool involved where known, notes the court, jurisdiction, and outcome (including any sanctions), and links to the primary court record or credible reporting. This group serves risk officers, malpractice insurers, and attorneys who need to understand real-world failure modes. It is distinct from regulatory-tracker (which covers rules and obligations) and from news-and-analysis (which covers broader market events). Entries must carry explicit disclaimers that summaries are informational and not legal analysis of the cases.
Risk incident entries
AI Citation Hallucination Sanctions in Federal Courts: Case Patterns, Penalties, and Enforcement Principles (2023–Q1 2026)
A structured reference covering the full arc of U.S. federal court AI citation sanctions — from the 2023 watershed through Q1 2026's record $145,000 quarter — documenting verified case counts, sanction amounts, the legal authority bases courts apply, and the four enforcement principles that now give litigating attorneys a calculable risk model.
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