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Risk Digest
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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A court order or docket entry has been independently verified.
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Still pending independent verification against a primary source.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtFederal JudiciaryToolNoneRuling dateOct 17, 2025What a Senate funding bill failure means for federal courts
As of early August 2026, the Senate has not voted on the House-passed short-term funding bill (HR 9770). This record maps the documented sequence a Sept. 30 lapse would trigger for federal courts — roughly two weeks of paid operations, then limited operations with civil dockets handled court by court — and lists what counsel should verify before the deadline.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionBarrow County, GeorgiaCourtBarrow County Superior CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 30, 2026The Legal Reason Colt Gray's Mother Wasn't Charged
Explains why the Barrow County DA charged Colin Gray but not Marcee Gray in the Apalachee High School shooting, under Georgia's proximate-cause limits on parental liability. Includes the DA's custody, proximity, and firearms calculus, plus the post-offense jail-call conduct that did not meet the charging test.
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COURT-CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS - Seventh CircuitCourtU.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh CircuitToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateMar 30, 2026Markwayne Mullin immigration appeal draws AI admonishment
Dec v. Mullin (7th Cir. 2026) documents an immigration attorney admonished — but not monetarily sanctioned — for two fabricated case citations in an appeal against DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin; the same window saw Ninth Circuit immigration attorneys hit with monetary sanctions and suspensions over AI hallucinations. The record gives litigators a sourceable benchmark for how circuits treat AI-citation errors in immigration filings.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtPrivate arbitration (NFL)ToolNoneRuling dateJan 1, 2025Urban Meyer loses Jaguars arbitration over $30 million
The sealed Urban Meyer-Jaguars arbitration reportedly upheld Jacksonville's for-cause firing, leaving the team not required to pay the $30M-plus remainder of Meyer's contract; the outcome is confirmed by named journalists, not by a public order. This record separates the verified timeline and documented misconduct from conflicting contract figures and still-unreleased award details.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUSCourtUS federal courtsToolGenerative AIRuling dateJul 2, 2026Will AI Create More Legal Jobs? Jensen Huang's Claim Tested
US legal-sector employment hit a record 1,243,500 in June 2026 even as GenAI adoption climbed — the strongest sector-level evidence to date for Jensen Huang's claim that AI creates jobs. This analysis tests that claim against the BLS record, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey estimates, and the ethics duties shaping legal hiring, and gives firm leaders the conditions under which the record can hold.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtVarious U.S. federal and state courtsToolOpenAI AstraRuling dateAug 1, 2026Why OpenAI Astra's Math Isn't Enough for Legal Tech
OpenAI Astra's Lean-verified math proofs don't transfer to filing-safe legal arithmetic. What litigators should weigh instead is unverified error-rate data on real damages, interest, and fee calculations — where documented hallucination and multi-step failure rates, not proof milestones, are the operative risk signals.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtU.S. courtsToolOpenAI AstraRuling dateAug 1, 2026Why OpenAI Astra is unproven for legal applications
OpenAI's Astra family is unreleased and has no legal-task benchmarks, even though its long-running agent design is where hallucination risk compounds. That evidence gap is the procurement risk signal: treat the math-proof demo as reasoning, not legal reliability, and apply existing verification duties before adoption.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the Northern District of MississippiToolGrok GovRuling dateJun 15, 2026DOJ's First-Ever Bid to Dismiss SpaceXAI Gas Turbine Suit
The DOJ's June 15, 2026 motion to intervene and dismiss in NAACP v. X.AI Corp. is the first time the United States has moved to dismiss a citizen suit against a private defendant, invoking a freestanding Article II 'right of dismissal' over the SpaceXAI gas turbines at the Southaven, Mississippi data-center site. The practical risk for litigators is contingent, not settled: if a court accepts the theory, citizen suits under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, and similar statutes become dismissible at the executive's option.
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COURT-CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federal – MississippiCourtU.S. District Court for the Northern District of MississippiToolIn-house AI toolRuling dateJun 8, 2026DeSoto redistricting filers face Judge Aycock's AI sanctions
Judge Aycock's June 8, 2026 order in Withers v. City of Aberdeen revoked pro hac vice admissions and imposed roughly $8,000 in combined fines on all four lawyers for unverified AI citations. She now presides over the NAACP-intervened Foster v. Mississippi redistricting case, where no AI hallucination has been alleged but her enforcement record sets the AI-filing standard.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-WisconsinCourtDane County Circuit CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 28, 2026Which grounds justify Wisconsin alcohol permit revocation?
Counsel analyzing a revocation must first identify which track applies: municipal retail licenses under Wis. Stat. § 125.12 or DOR-issued producer permits for breweries and warehouses. This tracker states the grounds and procedure for each, then maps the three stated grounds in Minocqua Brewing's 2026 revocation — and flags what remains reported versus confirmed.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-IdahoCourtAda County District CourtToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 23, 2025Netflix's Idaho Murders Doc Was Built on Untested Evidence
Netflix's Idaho Murders documentary presents the case as settled, but none of its evidence was ever cross-examined because Kohberger pleaded guilty before trial — and a pro se petition filed two days before the premiere now challenges the conviction. The structural difference to keep in view: what the documentary asserts is not the same as what the un-cross-examined probable-cause record supports.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionMassachusetts, U.S.CourtPlymouth Superior CourtToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJun 29, 2026What's Verified in Lindsay Clancy's 911 Call Transcript?
No official public transcript of Lindsay Clancy's 911 call exists: Plymouth Superior Court admitted the recording, subject to a limiting instruction, and kept it from public release. This case record separates what the jury heard on July 29, 2026 from the reporter-transcribed lines circulating as the 'transcript,' giving every quoted detail a confirmed-versus-reported status.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida (Tallahassee Division)ToolNone implicatedRuling dateJul 7, 2026Tallahassee Housing Authority fraud case: verified, no AI
This verified case record covers the Tallahassee Housing Authority fraud indictment - USA v. Huggins, No. 4:26-cr-00052 (N.D. Fla.) - separating confirmed procedural facts from charges that remain allegations. It also resolves the threshold classification question: no AI tool is implicated, so this is not an AI-sanction event.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionU.S. Virgin Islands (federal)CourtHUD administrative proceedingToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 20, 2026HUD's Virgin Islands funding halt hits VIHFA, not VIHA
HUD suspended the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority (VIHFA) from new federal funds on July 20, 2026. This record separates what is frozen from what remains active, distinguishes VIHFA from the untouched VIHA, and flags the 30-day appeal window as unconfirmed as of Aug. 3, 2026.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federal (District of Columbia)CourtU.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateDec 23, 20242024 legal developments in the Pan Am 103 bombing case
What happened in the Pan Am 103 bombing prosecution during 2024, with each ruling and filing tied to a primary source. The record runs from the January statute and March scheduling order through the December evidence transfer, deadline suspension, and remote-access memorandum opinion, with confirmed-versus-reported flags.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited States – C.D. Cal.CourtU.S. District Court for the Central District of CaliforniaToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 29, 2026Netflix sued over missing unreleased Nicolas Cage film
Verified Risk Digest record for Op-Fortitude Ltd. v. Netflix, Inc. (2:26-cv-08384, C.D. Cal.), the suit over the missing unreleased Nicolas Cage film: docket metadata, claims, damages theory, and a confirmed-versus-reported breakdown, sourced to the complaint PDF and PACER docket. Complaint-stage only, with no answer or ruling as of the 7/31/26 docket check.
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PENDING PLEA ACCEPTANCEUpdatedJurisdictionUS-FLCourt11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, FloridaToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 31, 2026Clenney Self-Defense and Abuse Evidence Case Awaits a Plea
Verified status of Florida v. Clenney as of Aug. 3, 2026: the July 31 plea, terms undisclosed, awaits Judge Andrea Ricker Wolfson's Aug. 10 acceptance hearing. This record walks the evidence rulings that shaped the self-defense case — bond denial, privilege exclusion, recording suppressions, iCloud limits, and the unresolved abuse-evidence fight — and confirms no AI-tool element appears in the docket.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federal and Mississippi stateCourtU.S. District Court for the Northern District of MississippiToolSpaceXAI (formerly xAI)Ruling dateJul 30, 2026Where the SpaceXAI Unpermitted Turbine Enforcement Stands
The SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) turbine enforcement record in Southaven, Mississippi is live, not settled: a federal Clean Air Act citizen suit and a July 2026 MDEQ agreed order are pending, with full removal deferred to July 2027 and no penalty assessed. Every date, turbine count, and emissions figure is timestamped and attributed to a primary source.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-ILCourtIllinois Prisoner Review BoardToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 31, 2026Sean Grayson denied medical release, but can refile
A primary-source-linked record of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board's 3-0 denial of Sean Grayson's medical release on July 31, 2026, covering the conflicting IDOC terminal-illness evaluation in his May application and the unlimited refiling right that keeps the release question open while his sentence appeal is pending.
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REPORTED-NOT-CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-Florida (state)CourtFlorida state courts (Broward and Miami-Dade)ToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 31, 2026Is Lekaysha Lockhart's lottery-ticket theft a federal case?
Most coverage calls the Lekaysha Lockhart lottery-ticket theft a federal case, but the verified record as of August 3, 2026 shows a state-level prosecution split between Broward and Miami-Dade, with the federal label reported-not-confirmed. The entry logs the confirmed timeline, charges, bail status, and reporting discrepancies so litigators and journalists can cite the case without repeating unverified claims.
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