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The flagship, near-daily updated database of documented AI hallucination and sanction incidents in legal proceedings worldwide. Each entry is a structured record, not a news article: jurisdiction, court, judge (if named), the AI tool implicated, penalty amount, ruling date, a confirmed-vs-reported status flag, and a link to the primary court order. Serves the 'check risk' and 'track regulation' tasks: a lawyer, risk manager, or journalist scanning for new sanctions, a specific jurisdiction, or a specific tool. Excludes narrative commentary, procedural how-to guidance (belongs in Workflows), and rule text summaries (belongs in Regulation). This group is the site's differentiation engine: freshness and per-record sourcing are the moat, so every record must carry a last-verified timestamp distinct from the ruling date.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionNew York, United StatesCourtNew York state courtToolAI legal research and summarization toolsRuling dateAug 2, 2026How criminal charges after the Brooklyn Bridge jump test AI research tools
A fast-moving criminal case from August 2, 2026 — the Brooklyn Bridge jump — reveals how AI legal research and summarization tools can flatten source-attributed discrepancies into a single narrative. This article demonstrates the primary-source verification workflow that catches those gaps, using the same discipline that prevents hallucinated citations in AI-drafted briefs.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaToolNoneRuling dateAug 2, 2026Presidio border wall flooding case details from the docket
A verified case record of Presidio Municipal Development District v. DHS (No. 1:26-cv-02146, D.D.C.) covering the parties and counsel, claims, the July 2, 2026 waiver amendment, Judge Walton's August 2, 2026 emergency-stay ruling, and the open deadlines. The record shows no court has found the wall caused flooding; the case is a prospective-risk administrative challenge whose merits remain undecided.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionItalyCourtItalian judiciaryToolMSC Divina PA systemRuling dateJul 30, 2026What Charges Follow a Fake Cruise Emergency Announcement?
Six passengers were arrested or referred after a fake emergency announcement aired on MSC Divina's PA system July 30, 2026. This record separates confirmed facts from press reports, maps the reported Italian charges plus flag-state and cruise-line exposure, and flags that no charging document has been located.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-MICourtU.S. District Court, Eastern District of MichiganToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 17, 2026Cyclospora outbreak lawsuits and deaths in Michigan 2026
A dated docket record of the first four lawsuits filed in the July 2026 Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taco Bell and Taylor Farms, with a defendant-entity table, legal theory summary, and a timestamped status of death-related claims.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtNo court (executive order)ToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateAug 3, 2026Military spouse commission EO creates no new legal duties
Executive Order 14415 creates an advisory Military Spouse Commission, not new enforceable obligations; Section 5(c) bars any right or benefit enforceable at law or in equity. The duty legal employers actually face is already in force — SCRA license portability (50 U.S.C. 4025a) now covers military spouse attorneys.
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NOT A CASE RECORDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited States (federal and state)CourtVarious federal, state, juvenile, family, and criminal courtsToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateAug 4, 2026How the law responds to teen dating firearm threats
A firearm threat in a teen dating relationship can trigger stacked legal responses — criminal charges, protective orders, firearm surrender, federal gun prohibitions, and school duties — but no single rule applies everywhere. This jurisdiction map shows where each lever binds, where federal coverage still excludes dating partners, and what counsel must verify before relying on any pathway.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS - District of ColumbiaCourtU.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateAug 2, 2026Judge's ruling lets Presidio border wall proceed for now
Judge Walton's Aug. 2, 2026 ruling in Presidio Municipal Development District v. DHS denied PMDD's motion to stay, so DHS may proceed with the border wall plan for now. This record explains why the ruling is narrow, whether construction is halted, and what remains open — the government's Aug. 21 answer, the parallel Ruidosa Church waiver challenge, and Texas's cease-and-desist.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionTennessee, USCourtNot a court proceedingToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 29, 2026What Do the Knoxville TLC Crime Study Numbers Mean?
A source-level verification of Knoxville's Project TLC evaluation, tracing each headline figure — the East District homicide decline, the citywide murder-rate drop, and the Montgomery Village projection — to its denominator and baseline. You'll know which numbers are confirmed, which are reported, and what caveats you must attach before citing them.
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INTRODUCEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 30, 2026What the Fetterman-McCormick Spotted Lanternfly Bill Would Do
A primary-source-verified record of S.5200, the bipartisan spotted lanternfly research bill introduced by Sen. Fetterman with Sen. McCormick: what it would change, where it stands in the Senate, and how the press-release economic figures trace back to the Penn State study.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federal (D.C. Circuit)CourtU.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateAug 2, 2026The Presidio Border Wall Lawsuit Isn't Over Yet
A verified record of the Presidio border-wall lawsuit in D.D.C.: the parties, the Rivers and Harbors Act Section 408 claim, why Judge Walton denied the preliminary injunction on August 2, 2026, and what happens next — the government's answer is due August 21, 2026.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS - Ninth CircuitCourtU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitToolChatGPTRuling dateJun 3, 2026AI Know-Your-Rights Scripts Now Carry ICE Sanction Risk
AI-drafted ICE know-your-rights scripts carry documented sanction risk. Lnu v. Blanche, Dec v. Mullin, and EOIR PM 25-40 share the standard: verification failure, not AI use.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionChina, United StatesCourtWTO Dispute Settlement BodyToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateMay 21, 2023Which legal rules govern the Micron–China AI chip contest?
A source-linked record of the five legal layers in the Micron–China AI chip dispute — CAC finding, US HBM export controls, suspended minerals bans, stalled WTO case, pending MATCH Act — each with jurisdiction, status flag, and effective date as of August 2026.
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DISMISSEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federal (D. Idaho)CourtU.S. District Court for the District of IdahoToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateFeb 3, 2026Which Micron AI chip contract legal risks are verifiable?
Primary-sourced, docket-level legal risk register for Micron's AI-memory contracts and China-facing business, covering export controls and tariffs, Netlist and YMTC patent litigation, securities class and derivative actions, and China's CAC ban. The early-2026 securities class action dismissal reweights the exposure toward export-control compliance and patent disputes, with each item date-stamped and flagged confirmed or pending.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateMay 26, 2026Why the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie case needed five forums
The Pan Am 103 bombing produced not one but five interlocking legal forums, and new litigation is still running as of Q3 2026. The full picture requires reading all five — the 1991 indictments, UN sanctions, the ICJ Montreal Convention cases, the Scottish trial at Camp Zeist, and the US prosecution of Abu Agila Mas'ud — each with its own legal basis, outcome, and live status.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-New YorkCourtNew York Supreme Court, Albany CountyToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 31, 2026Second Micron NY forever chemicals lawsuit targets permits
Neighbors for a Better Micron and Jobs to Move America filed a second lawsuit on July 31, 2026, in New York Supreme Court (Albany County), against NYSDEC, Micron, and Onondaga County, seeking to void the SPDES wastewater and Title V air permits on the theory that the state 'authorizes discharge first and regulation later' — enforceable PFAS limits for only PFOA/PFOS, monitoring-only for the other 38 of 40 listed PFAS. The new suit is pending with no argument date, running parallel to the January FEIS challenge set for oral argument Aug. 25, 2026.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtBoard of Immigration AppealsToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 30, 2026When does an airport ICE arrest require a bond hearing?
After an airport ICE arrest — the situation in the reported Maryland teacher case — release turns on the circuit's reading of §1225 versus §1226 and on how quickly habeas relief is pursued. This map covers the July 2025 no-bond policy shift, the split rulings as of August 2026, and the enforcement gap that can delay release even after a court orders a hearing.
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COURT-CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court for the District of MassachusettsToolNoneRuling dateJul 17, 2026The stopgap funding bill freezes the federal grant rule
The Senate stopgap bill makes one grant-specific legal change: it freezes OMB's proposed 2 CFR Part 200 overhaul through Dec. 11, 2026. The freeze defers, rather than resolves, the dispute over the rule's termination and political-priorities provisions — and sets the calendar grant-funded organizations should watch before the CR expires.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionCaliforniaCourtCalifornia state courtsToolAsk CAL FIRERuling dateAug 4, 2026Foster City Fire Raises AI Liability Questions
AI-generated updates about the Foster City fire — from CAL FIRE's Ask CAL FIRE chatbot to an AI-summarized city post — have already shown failure modes that make them unreliable as primary sources. This record maps the resulting liability: counsel must verify AI fire facts against the issuing agency's records, while government AI deployments face an emerging accountability surface.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtU.S. Immigration CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 28, 2026Was the Johns Hopkins Researcher Detained as an Overstay?
A verified record of the July 2026 ICE detention of Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka, presented as a contested status-transition dispute: J-1 entry plus a TPS grant and pending asylum versus DHS's overstay classification, and what her release into removal proceedings means for travelers with pending status applications.
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PRETRIAL; JURY SELECTION PENDINGUpdatedJurisdictionUnited States federal (D.D.C.)CourtU.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 16, 2026Where the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie bombing trial stands now
Docket-sourced status of the first U.S. federal Lockerbie prosecution, United States v. Abu Agila Mas'ud, as of Aug. 4, 2026: charges, custody timeline, and the pretrial rulings that decided the confession-suppression and extraterritorial-jurisdiction challenges. Also covers victim remote access under Public Law 118-37, the July 2026 Pan Am telex ruling, and the pending Aug. 24–25 jury-selection dates.
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