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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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A court order or docket entry has been independently verified.
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Still pending independent verification against a primary source.
REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS Federal (D.D.C.)CourtU.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaToolNo AI toolRuling dateAug 2, 2026Trump's national park fee increase legal challenge stalls
Center for Biological Diversity v. Burgum (D.D.C.) is the only direct court challenge to the 2026 national park fee increase, and as of August 2, 2026, it has no ruling: the government's motion to dismiss is fully briefed and the fees remain in effect. This docket-verified risk record tracks the challenged pass redesign and fee structure, the FLREA and APA theories, and how related actions differ from the fee case.
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ALLEGEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS Federal - M.D. Tenn.CourtU.S. District Court for the Middle District of TennesseeToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 13, 2026Taylor Farms ex-president accused in $32M civil fraud suit
A docket-verified record of Taylor Fresh Foods v. Thure (No. 3:26-cv-00772, M.D. Tenn.) separating confirmed case events from the unproven $32M fraud allegations against ex-president Brian Thure. The record covers case metadata, the docket timeline through the July 31, 2026 check, primary-source links, and an explicit allegations-not-proven flag.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the District of MassachusettsToolNoneRuling dateJun 12, 2026Judge Orders NPS to Restore Park Climate Exhibits
A docket-verified status record for the order requiring NPS to restore national-park climate and history exhibits: who is bound, what must be reinstalled, and how the First Circuit's June 23 and July 2 rulings changed the obligation. Every element is flagged confirmed-versus-reported with a last-verified date, so readers can state the current procedural posture without repeating stale facts.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionU.S. FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the Southern District of FloridaToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 13, 2026Judge voids Trump-IRS settlement for lack of adverseness
Judge Williams' July 13 order in Trump v. IRS strips the 'settlement' of operative legal effect after finding the parties were never adverse, and bars them from relying on it in any future proceeding. This non-AI court-obligations record distills the ruling's findings and the adverseness checks counsel should run before signing, with the Eleventh Circuit appeal tracked in a separate Risk Digest record.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitToolWestlaw, LexisRuling dateJun 3, 2026Todd Blanche Confirmed as Deputy Attorney General
Verified Senate roll-call record confirms Todd Blanche as Deputy Attorney General by a 52–46 vote on March 5, 2025. That closed record — not the pending AG nomination — is the operative fact for who currently controls DOJ AI and digital-asset enforcement, including DOJ's named-party role in Lnu v. Blanche.
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COURT-CONFIRMED; REPORTEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS Federal; US State; DelawareCourtDelaware Court of Chancery; U.S. federal courtToolNoneRuling dateJul 24, 2026Six Legal Fronts in the Paramount-WBD Merger Deal
Federal antitrust review is closed, so the Paramount-WBD merger now turns on the state AGs' injunction, the FCC foreign-ownership review, and two Delaware suits. This risk map tracks all six legal fronts - current posture, next milestone, and what each month of delay costs under the merger's ticking-fee structure.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs CommitteeToolnoneRuling dateJul 29, 2026Does a Pardon Negate Fauci's Fifth Amendment Right?
Rand Paul says Biden's January 2025 pardon negates Fauci's Fifth Amendment privilege, citing Brown v. Walker; Fauci's counsel counters that newly sworn testimony and state prosecution risk keep the privilege alive. The legal question is genuinely unsettled, and the committee's pending contempt vote is the likely vehicle for getting it before a court.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionU.S. federalCourtU.S. Supreme CourtToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 31, 2026Harris's 13-Justice Supreme Court Expansion, Explained
Kamala Harris called for a 13-justice Supreme Court on July 31, 2026, but the proposal's legal record differs from its political headline. The exact quote and venue, the constitutional and statutory mechanics behind the number 13, and the verified legislative status as of early August 2026 are documented — including the pending term-limits bill and the absence of any located 13-justice expansion bill in the 119th Congress.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtU.S. Department of JusticeToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateFeb 1, 2024Why Biden's Classified Documents Case Turned on Willfulness
Why the Justice Department declined to prosecute a former president who indisputably possessed documents marked classified — and why the July 2026 ghostwriter tapes do not change that result. The Hur report's willfulness analysis under 18 U.S.C. § 793(e) is the clearest modern case study in how prosecutors apply the Espionage Act's mens rea, with practical risk lessons for counsel handling classified documents.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. Supreme CourtToolnoneRuling dateSep 8, 2025Trump's $83.3M Defamation Verdict Appeal Heads to SCOTUS
Analysis of the three questions presented in the Trump and DOJ cert petitions, the procedural history, and why the Supreme Court is unlikely to grant review of the $83.3 million defamation verdict.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionNorth CarolinaCourtNorth Carolina Supreme CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateApr 2, 2026What Leandro v. North Carolina means for school funding
A verified, primary-source-linked record of the North Carolina Supreme Court's April 2, 2026 Leandro dismissal: which rulings were voided, which precedent survives, and what the decision means for court-ordered school funding that was never paid.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionNew Jersey, USCourtU.S. District Court for the District of New JerseyToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 29, 2026Judge Quraishi's DOJ voter dismissal heads to Third Circuit
Judge Quraishi's dismissal of the DOJ's voter suit now heads to the Third Circuit on appeal, one of eight pending appellate fronts. With the Sixth Circuit having affirmed Benson and en banc review pending, the First and Ninth Circuit rulings will decide whether the district courts' unanimous Title III reading survives — with zero DOJ appellate wins so far.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionU.S. FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the Middle District of TennesseeToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJun 5, 2026Brian Thure Isn't Named in Taylor Farms Cyclospora Lawsuits
Searches tying Brian Thure to the Taylor Farms cyclospora lettuce lawsuit actually blend two unrelated court matters. This docket-verified record separates the Tennessee corporate-fraud suit against Thure from the 2026 cyclospora consumer litigation and confirms that no sourced document connects him to the outbreak cases.
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DISMISSAL MOTION FILED; ORDER PENDINGUpdatedJurisdictionDistrict of ColumbiaCourtDistrict of Columbia Superior CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 20, 2026Was David Hearn's Reflecting Pool Case Dismissed?
News coverage says the Reflecting Pool case against David Hearn is dismissed, but the docket as of August 1, 2026 shows only a without-prejudice dismissal motion filed July 31 — no court order yet. This verification record flags the accurate pending status, what the government's motion actually concedes, and why the charges remain re-fileable.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionDistrict of ColumbiaCourtD.C. Superior CourtToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 31, 2026Unverified sources collapsed DOJ's Reflecting Pool case
The Justice Department moved to dismiss its felony case against former Olympian Davey Hearn after conceding it relied on unverified, incomplete agency reports and could not attribute the Reflecting Pool's damage to him beyond a reasonable doubt. The 42-day collapse is the same source-verification failure mode this site tracks in AI citation cases, and it yields a concrete checklist for counsel before relying on unverified material — agency-supplied or AI-generated.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaToolAnthropicRuling dateMar 30, 2026The AI-search standoff behind Reddit's stock slide
Reddit's reported standoff over renewing Google's ~$60M AI data deal cost the stock 8% in a day — and clarified the real content-platform risk: contract leverage, not copyright litigation. Reddit's enforcement suits against Anthropic and Perplexity, Wells Fargo's traffic-cannibalization warnings, and the Munich and ZAK rulings give counsel a working framework for drafting, pricing, and enforcing AI data-access terms.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionIdaho, USCourtIdaho District CourtToolAmazon recommendation systemRuling dateJun 26, 2025Must the State Prove Motive in Bryan Kohberger's Case?
Motive is not an element of first-degree murder under Idaho law, so the state never had to prove one in Bryan Kohberger's case. With no direct motive in the record, the decisive motive-related fights were evidentiary: the alternate-perpetrator proffer excluded under Meister and IRE 403, plus the Amazon click-activity and phone-location evidence.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionIdaho, United StatesCourtIdaho District CourtToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateJul 30, 2026What happens next in Kohberger's bid for a new trial?
A dated, rule-cited roadmap of Bryan Kohberger's Idaho post-conviction case, from the July 27, 2026 pro se petition through the state's 30-day response window or summary-disposition motion under ID Code § 19-4906, the evidentiary hearing, and the appeal path — with a new trial or new sentencing as the remedies that would restore death-penalty exposure.
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CONFIRMED (PLEA WITHDRAWAL PENDING)UpdatedJurisdictionUS-IdahoCourtIdaho state courtToolNoneRuling dateJul 23, 2025Is the Netflix Idaho Murders Documentary a True Story?
Viewers asking whether The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare is a 'true story' get a claim, not a citation. This record-level check verifies the documentary's core assertions — the knife-sheath DNA, the 2015 Elantra, the 2025 guilty plea and life sentences — against the Idaho case file and explains what the pending July 2026 plea-withdrawal petition changes.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtUnited States District Court, Northern District of IndianaToolNo AI tool implicatedPenalty70 months imprisonment; $78,317.52 restitution; $5,000,000 forfeitureRuling dateJul 30, 2026What Was Matthew Kawa's Paradigm Peptides Sentence?
Verified record of Matthew Kawa's sentence in United States v. Kawa (N.D. Ind.), confirmed against the USAO case page and docket: 70 months' imprisonment, one year supervised release, $78,317.52 joint-and-several restitution, and a $5 million agreed forfeiture. It also flags which circulating figures are inaccurate or stale, including 'nearly six years' and a superseded June 3, 2026 sentencing date.
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