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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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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS (Southern District of New York)CourtU.S. District Court for the Southern District of New YorkToolAnthropic ClaudeRuling dateFeb 1, 2026The AI Selloff Repriced Legal AI Vendors, Not Risk
The February 2026 legal-AI selloff, triggered by Anthropic's Claude Cowork plugin, repriced Thomson Reuters, RELX, and Wolters Kluwer — but it left the risk ledger unchanged: the same sanctions, privilege rulings, and ABA Formal Opinion 512 obligations still govern AI-assisted work. What the rout changed is vendor viability and buyer leverage, not the verification duties lawyers still owe before filing or procuring.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-MNCourtMinnesota county courtToolGoogleRuling dateJun 3, 2026Jensen Huang's AI data center jobs claim hits the courtroom
Jensen Huang's AI data center job-creation claims overstate the buildout's permanent employment, while its fastest-growing legal reality is litigation. The source-linked picture for legal teams is two-sided: new infrastructure-adjacent work and mounting case exposure.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-FLCourtMiami-Dade County Circuit CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJun 26, 2024Courtney Clenney Privilege Ruling Maps AI Review Duties
Court-adjudicated privilege violation in Courtney Clenney's murder case — family-defense communications read by prosecutors, evidence suppressed, recusal sought — is documented here as a template for privilege-screen and taint-team obligations in AI-assisted e-discovery. No AI tool is implicated (editorial analogy only), and plea terms remain undisclosed ahead of the Aug. 10 hearing.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionLos Angeles County, CaliforniaCourtSuperior Court of California, County of Los AngelesToolTheora GPS smartwatchRuling dateAug 2, 2026Who consents to dementia GPS tracking after a Silver Alert?
Four Silver Alerts hit Los Angeles County in four days, all involving older men with cognitive impairment — and none appeared enrolled in the county's free L.A. Found GPS program. The barrier is legal authority, not cost: consent to GPS-tracking a person with dementia turns on Penal Code 637.7, capacity, power of attorney, conservatorship, and guardianship.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtNo courtToolOpenAI AstraRuling dateJul 20, 2026Is OpenAI Astra ready for legal analytics?
OpenAI Astra is engineered for the long-horizon multi-agent work legal-analytics pipelines would require, yet no published legal-task evaluation of it exists as of August 2026. This procurement-risk assessment separates what OpenAI has verified from what analytics buyers should verify themselves — judge statistics, win rates, damages distributions — before adoption.
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CONFIRMED-PENDINGUpdatedJurisdictionWisconsin, United StatesCourtWisconsin DOR Division of Alcoholic BeveragesToolNone implicatedRuling dateAug 4, 2026Did Minocqua Brewing actually lose its permit?
Check the verified status of Minocqua Brewing Company's Wisconsin permit loss across the DOR revocation, June seizure and Dane County suit, Oneida County zoning history, and the Seventh Circuit ruling. As of Aug. 3, 2026, the headline revocation is still pending, with an Aug. 4 effective and appeal deadline, and no AI tool is implicated in any underlying filing.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionEUCourtNo court (regulatory record)ToolAnnex III point 7 border AI systemRuling dateAug 2, 2026Ceuta migrant crisis meets the EU AI Act's border deadline
Days after the July 30-31 Ceuta surge, the EU AI Act's high-risk border obligations became enforceable on August 2, 2026 — a date still subject to a pending EU delay. This record maps the provider and deployer duties that now attach to any AI system used at the Spanish-Moroccan border for risk scoring, credibility assessment, or person detection, and why, with no verified AI deployment in the Ceuta response, the exposure is a forward-looking compliance risk rather than a confirmed incident.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtU.S. federal and state courtsToolGenerative AIRuling dateAug 3, 2026Nvidia CEO says AI automates legal tasks, not legal jobs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues AI automates tasks, not jobs, and uses lawyers as his example. This outlook tests that claim against 2026 legal market data and the court rulings that penalize unsupervised AI work — and shows where legal careers are actually growing.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionEuropean Union; United StatesCourtNo court proceedingToolUnspecified legal AI platformRuling dateAug 2, 2026How US AI leadership decline triggers EU AI Act obligations
As US federal AI leadership stalls — no comprehensive federal law, a shrinking researcher pipeline — the EU AI Act becomes the de facto compliance framework for US law firms and legal departments whose AI tools touch EU markets, even indirectly through SaaS platforms or resellers. The operative compliance question is provider-versus-deployer status, and the August 2, 2026 high-risk deadline — still legally enforceable while the EU Council's delay vote is pending — sets the timetable for Article 99 penalties of up to €15 million or 3% of global annual turnover.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionWisconsin, U.S.CourtDane County Circuit CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateAug 4, 2026Did Wisconsin Revoke a Brewery Permit for Political Posts?
The Wisconsin DOR revoked Minocqua Brewing Company's permits citing alcohol transport and tax violations, not the owner's political posts. This record separates the confirmed agency grounds from the unproven First Amendment retaliation theory, with links to the controlling Seventh Circuit precedent and the pending appeal.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-Federal (S.D. Fla.)CourtU.S. District Court for the Southern District of FloridaToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 13, 2026Trump v. IRS Sanctions Lawyers, Refers Blanche to NY Bar
Judge Williams' July 13, 2026 Trump v. IRS order found the suit was filed for an improper purpose, sanctioned the lawyers, referred Todd Blanche, Jonathan Woodward, and Alejandro Brito to state bars, and barred the settlement from evidentiary use. Readers can verify who was referred to which bar, the settlement's evidentiary status, and why the July 31 appeal does not suspend the findings, against the linked primary order.
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COURT-CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionMassachusettsCourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 24, 2018Actual Knowledge Is the Key to Student Suicide Liability
State and federal courts are converging on a narrow duty trigger for student-suicide liability: actual knowledge of a prior attempt or stated intent, followed by proof of a documented response protocol. This record maps that standard across the governing Massachusetts, Maryland, and California opinions and explains what evidence clears the hurdle.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionOregon, United StatesCourtClackamas County Circuit CourtToolUnspecified AI research toolRuling dateJun 16, 2025Which Clackamas Town Center shooting are you citing?
The phrase 'Clackamas Town Center shooting' maps to at least five distinct incidents with different legal statuses; a place-name alone cannot identify the correct docket. Litigators and research teams can confirm the right case record by checking case number, court, docket date, and party names against primary sources.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionMassachusettsCourtPlymouth County Superior CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 30, 2026Lindsay Clancy Day 3 testimony signals a concession strategy
Day 3 of Lindsay Clancy's trial saw the defense cross-examine only two first responders, both tied to her condition, and let the rest testify without challenge. The pattern signals the act is conceded and the coming fight is over injury severity and criminal responsibility.
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COURT-CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the Southern District of New YorkToolChatGPTRuling dateMay 8, 2026Trump grant freeze legal challenge turns on ChatGPT
Judge McMahon's May 8, 2026 permanent injunction blocks the ChatGPT-driven cancellation of more than 1,400 NEH grants and rejects the government's 'the AI did it' defense. The court-verified record shows how DOGE used ChatGPT as the government's 'chosen instrument,' leaving agencies accountable for viewpoint discrimination, with the Thakur stipulations as corroborating context.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionU.S. federalCourtU.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. CircuitToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 31, 2026Fauci Pleaded the Fifth. Now Comes the Contempt Vote.
As of Aug. 3, 2026, a verified status record of the Fauci Fifth Amendment matter: what the Aug. 5 HSGAC contempt vote can and cannot produce, which defenses survive the July D.C. Circuit rulings, and why DOJ's declination record still constrains enforcement.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court (Lancaster and Westfield)ToolUnnamed AI image generatorsRuling dateJul 1, 2026Who Bears School Liability for AI-Generated Student Nudes?
Maps civil liability for AI-generated nude images of students across school districts, student creators, and platforms, using the live Lancaster and Westfield federal filings to distinguish what has actually been paid from claims still at the motion-to-dismiss stage.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtMultiple U.S. District CourtsToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateMay 7, 2026The legal limits of Markwayne Mullin's FEMA overhaul
Most of Mullin's FEMA overhaul requires legislation: 6 U.S.C. §316 and PKEMRA bar the DHS Secretary from substantially reducing FEMA's core functions, and the Review Council's recommendations largely need Congress. This record maps what only Congress can change, what the administration can do alone, and where pending grant-condition and funding lawsuits concentrate the near-term legal exposure.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtN.D. Cal.ToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateApr 28, 2025The Legal Difference Between AMBER and Silver Alerts
AMBER Alerts rest on a federally coordinated framework with a dedicated Wireless Emergency Alerts class, while Silver Alerts are a state-law patchwork with no national standard. The distinction drives different, largely state-dependent legal exposure — false-report charges, HIPAA and age-discrimination concerns, and delivery-device liability — so the statute that applies, not the broadcast mechanism, sets the risk.
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REPORTED / NOT CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtNo court identifiedToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateLIV Golf's Chapter 11 Case Remains Reported, Not Confirmed
As of August 3, 2026, no LIV Golf Chapter 11 petition has been filed in any US bankruptcy court, so the record carries no docket number, court, or judge to cite. Use this 'reported, not confirmed' verification record to separate pre-filing coverage and public denials from a filed case, including the PACER/CM-ECF checks that would flip its status.
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