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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 federalCourtNot a court proceedingToolNone namedRuling dateJul 22, 2026Two laws still block Turkey's F-35 reentry
The July 22, 2026 State Department letter to Congress states that Turkey has not met the statutory conditions for F-35 reentry. This briefing maps the two independent legal barriers — CAATSA Section 231 sanctions on SSB and the FY2020 NDAA Section 1245 transfer bar — and what must change before any transfer is lawful.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitToolWestlaw AI-Assisted Research, Lexis+ AI, Ask Practical Law AIRuling dateJan 1, 2025What a trade name legally is — and what it isn't
Under 15 U.S.C. § 1127, a trade name is any name used to identify a business or vocation — legally distinct from a trademark, which identifies goods and services. Conflating the two can trigger TMEP registration refusals, UCC perfection defects, and Rule 17 dismissal, so practitioners need to verify the definition against primary sources before relying on AI-generated legal research.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionOregon, USCourtClackamas County Circuit CourtToolNoneRuling dateMar 23, 2026What's confirmed about Clackamas Town Center juvenile arrest
What's confirmed and what's not in the March 2026 Clackamas Town Center juvenile arrest. The verified record tags every detail as confirmed or reported and keeps the 2012 and 2024 same-venue shootings separate.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtFCC / state small claims courtsToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 27, 2026Which T-Mobile Outage Compensation Claims Are Worth Filing
No formal compensation program has been announced for the July 27 T-Mobile outage; the realistic claim is a bill credit in the user-reported $10–$80 range won through support negotiation, not damages or an FCC award. The record verifies what each claim route — FCC complaints, arbitration, small claims — can actually deliver and what evidence subscribers should preserve.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionEgyptCourtNoneToolDroneRuling dateJul 29, 2026The Damietta port drone attack is presumptively unlawful
The July 29, 2026 drone strike on LNG carriers at Egypt's Damietta port is presumptively unlawful under the law of naval warfare: the vessels were civilian merchant ships, and the port sits in internal waters of a non-belligerent state. This record separates confirmed facts from reported attribution claims and anchors the analysis in the San Remo Manual's rules on military objectives, merchant vessels, and neutral waters.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtU.S. SenateToolNo AI toolRuling dateJul 31, 2026What Deadlines Actually Bind Todd Blanche's Acting AG Tenure?
A legal analysis of the statutes and political calendar that determine how long Todd Blanche can serve as acting attorney general without Senate confirmation, and why no statutory deadline currently forces his departure.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtNoneToolNoneRuling dateJul 24, 2026Legal Implications of the Maple Leaf Foods Bacon Recall
How much legal exposure does a Class I food recall create when no illnesses are confirmed? For the July 2026 Maple Leaf bacon recall, that exposure is primarily regulatory and reputational — with civil risk bounded by FSIS enforcement mechanics, consumer economic-loss and failure-to-warn theories, and the outer limits set in Maple Leaf's own 2008 settlement and 2020 SCC ruling.
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NO PUBLIC LITIGATION IDENTIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS (TX, LA, MS, AR, OK, NM)CourtNo court proceedings identifiedToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 22, 2026When Are Retailers Liable in a Salmonella Egg Recall?
Maps retailer legal exposure in the July 2026 Midwest Poultry salmonella egg recall across the six affected states. It shows why passive sellers are largely shielded in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, why Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico still expose any chain-of-distribution seller to strict liability, and how post-notice conduct can defeat even a passive-seller defense.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionKentucky, USCourtScott County District Court, KentuckyToolNone documentedRuling dateJul 28, 2026Kentucky Powerball winner's domestic violence case record
A confirmed-vs-reported record digest of the Kentucky Powerball winner's July 2026 domestic-violence case in Scott County District Court: the strangulation and assault charges, the not-guilty plea, the $15,000 cash bond and conditions, and the next hearing dates, with press conflicts flagged rather than smoothed over.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionEUCourtNoneToolNoneRuling dateWho pays when an orca sinks your yacht?
A structured liability map for Iberian orca interactions: why no party is legally responsible for wildlife-caused damage, how hull insurance has become the only practical recovery, and the criminal and civil exposure skippers create by harming the animal in response.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-FederalCourtFDAToolRohto Cooling Eye DropsRuling dateJul 23, 2026Are Your Rohto Cooling Eye Drops on the FDA Recall List?
Check whether your Rohto Cooling Eye Drops carton is on the FDA recall list with a three-step verification tied to Enforcement Report Event 99440. If it matches, stop use, dispose of or return the product, and report reactions through FDA MedWatch.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtNo court filing identifiedToolOpenAIRuling dateJul 26, 2026The State Department AI map error's legal fallout, so far
As of July 31, 2026, no lawsuit, sanction, or penalty over the State Department's AIDS 2026 AI map error has been identified. This verified incident record documents the real consequences — the internal probe, the staffer-attributed apology, OMB AI-compliance exposure, and diplomatic fallout — and the FTCA exceptions any private claim would face.
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UpdatedWhat to Do If You Bought Recalled Rohto Eye Drops
Bought Rohto Cooling Eye Drops covered by the July 2026 recall? This consumer legal guide walks through verifying your batch, stopping use, seeking a refund, documenting the purchase, reporting the problem, and deciding whether to consult an attorney.
REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionNevada, United StatesCourtEighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, NevadaToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 28, 2026Why a Nevada judge admitted Keefe D's 2008 Tupac interview
A Nevada judge admitted Keefe D's 2008 police interview for his upcoming Tupac Shakur murder trial, rejecting the defense's claim that detectives promised it would never be used. Here is what the recording contains, why the judge let it in despite calling the alleged promise coercive, and why the immunity issue stays live for appeal.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionU.S. 9th CircuitCourtU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitToolNo AI tool namedRuling dateSep 26, 2022Why the ICE detention center sale is a legal risk transfer
Federal ownership of California's two largest ICE detention facilities, bought from CoreCivic for roughly $1.5B in July 2026, shifts the decisive oversight fight from state inspection and permitting into federal forums. The record verifies the transaction terms, breaks down the contested premium over assessed value, and maps the pending litigation that will set how much state authority survives the sale.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-PACourtPennsylvania State Board of MedicineToolEmilie (Character Technologies)Ruling dateMay 28, 2026PA board revoked psychiatrist Amy Mazza MacIntyre's license
Primary-source record of the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine's May 28, 2026 revocation of Amy Mazza MacIntyre, M.D.'s medical license, including the board's findings, the penalty imposed, and appeal docket status. The case doubles as the human-side benchmark for the board's parallel enforcement action against a chatbot that claimed a fabricated psychiatrist license number, since both claims fail the same issuing-board verification check.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionMinnesota, United StatesCourtOtter Tail County District CourtToolNoneRuling dateJul 28, 2026No conviction in Jason Rogers teacher probation case
Viral and news reports describe former Underwood teacher Jason Rogers as "convicted," but the Otter Tail County District Court record shows a stay of adjudication on three counts of malicious punishment of a child — no conviction entered, with charges dismissed if he completes two years of supervised probation and its conditions. This verification record separates what the court actually ordered from complaint allegations and press wording, and flags the docket checks still needed before any summary is relied on.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court for the District of New JerseyToolNo AI tool implicatedRuling dateJul 29, 2026Why Trump's DOJ Is 0-18 in Voter-Data Lawsuits
All 18 district-court merits rulings to date have rejected the DOJ's Title III voter-data theory, a uniformity explained more by statutory text than by judicial appointments. Readers get the arguments on both sides, the Sixth Circuit's split Benson affirmance, and the verification steps counsel should take before treating the 0-18 tally as precedent.
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CONFIRMED AND REPORTEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited States (multi-state)CourtMultiple state and local courtsToolFlock (ALPR)Ruling dateJul 25, 2026Why officers get suspended for unauthorized records access
A sourced digest of police officers disciplined for unauthorized records access, from two-day suspensions to felony charges. It maps a recurring discipline pattern and flags which outcomes are confirmed rather than reported.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionWashingtonCourtKing County Juvenile CourtToolNo AI tool involvedRuling dateJul 29, 2026Bite of Seattle shooting suspect faces a decline hearing
A judge, not the charge alone, will decide whether the 15-year-old Bite of Seattle shooting suspect is tried as an adult. This breakdown explains how RCW 13.40.110's discretionary decline-hearing standard works, what factors the court must weigh, how long comparable King County proceedings have run, and the sentencing exposure if he is convicted in adult court.
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