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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 — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtGeneral public recordsToolGeneral AI modelsRuling dateJul 24, 2026The Legal Risk in Chris Anne Affleck's Obituary Error
This article examines how the 2026 Boston Globe obituary of Chris Anne Affleck repeated a biographical inaccuracy she corrected in 2015, illustrating how obituaries become persistent legal records and how their errors propagate into AI training data and background checks. The case establishes that primary-source verification protocols should apply to obituary-derived data just as they do to court filings.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-New YorkCourtNew York State CourtToolNo AI tool involvedRuling dateJul 17, 2026No Evidence Ties Today Show Intruder to Nancy Guthrie
This digest examines whether Andrew Truelove, the man who breached the Today show set, is linked to Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, and provides a verified summary of each case's active legal proceedings and court records.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionEU (France)CourtEuropean CommissionToolTesla Full Self-Driving (FSD)Ruling dateJul 23, 2026France's FSD Blockade Tests the Article 39 Exemption Pathway
France's July 2026 opposition to Tesla Full Self-Driving approval tests the legal foundation of the Article 39 type-exemption pathway, revealing the vulnerability of provisional national approvals for manufacturers operating in the EU.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionMaineCourtNo courtToolNo AI toolRuling dateJul 19, 2026Why a data-free cyber attack still carries legal risk for Maine ISPs
The July 2026 Tidewater Telecom DDoS disrupted internet across 23 Maine towns but did not exfiltrate customer data. This article examines the remaining legal exposure under Maine's broadband reasonable-measures duty, FTC enforcement authority, and potential business interruption claims, as well as the gap in state breach notification law that pure service-disruption attacks expose.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the District of DelawareToolGenerative AIRuling dateFeb 5, 2026Could AI Spending Concerns Trigger Director Liability?
The 2026 tech stock rout over AI spending raises a novel fiduciary-duty question: do directors who approve massive AI capex without documented governance frameworks face personal liability? This analysis examines the convergence of the Texas TRAIGA statute, the Oracle securities suit, and the evidence gap between projected returns and actual outcomes.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtU.S. District CourtToolGenerative AIRuling dateDec 31, 2025Three Due Diligence Gaps Emerging from PE AI Investment Trends
The $63B PE-led AI investment wave in 2025 introduced novel legal risks — data provenance gaps, shadow AI exposure, and regulatory compliance costs — that standard software diligence frameworks fail to address. This analysis maps those risks and the evolving representations, warranties, and RWI exclusions that deal lawyers must navigate.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtU.S. FederalToolLegal AI toolsRuling dateJul 24, 2026How the Magnificent 7 Selloff Exposes Legal AI Investment Risk
The July 2026 Magnificent 7 selloff signals more than tech investor sentiment—it reveals concrete transmission channels that expose law firms and legal departments to AI vendor consolidation, client cost pressure, and procurement concentration risk.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtGeneralToolEtched SohuRuling dateJul 23, 2026Etched's $10.3B Valuation Flags a Hidden Legal AI Risk
Etched's Sohu ASIC, backed by a $10.3 billion valuation, cannot run MoE models like DeepSeek V4. This article explains why law firms should treat inference hardware architectural dependency as a new due diligence dimension for AI tool reliability, and what questions to ask vendors.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-federalCourtU.S. District CourtToolLegal AI research toolRuling dateJul 22, 2026AI Stock Sell-Off and Oil Spike Raise Legal Malpractice Exposure
This article examines whether the July 2026 macro event—AI stocks selling off while oil surges past $100—creates concrete malpractice exposure for law firms using AI tools. It shows how vendor financial stress, combined with existing contract liability caps, makes accuracy degradation a documented risk that no single source confirms but three independent data streams converge to predict.
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CASE-STATUS-CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaToolPerplexity AI agentRuling dateMar 15, 2026Why AI Startups Can No Longer Blame the Rogue Agent
The July 2026 OpenAI-HuggingFace incident marks the end of the autonomous-agent defense for AI startups. Four concurrent legal theories—CFAA, California's statutory bar, agency attribution, and product liability—now place liability squarely on the deployer.
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STATUTORY ENACTMENTUpdatedJurisdictionTexas, United StatesCourtTexas SenateToolNot applicableRuling dateJun 15, 2025Texas SB6 Creates Mandatory Curtailment for AI Data Centers
Texas Senate Bill 6, the first U.S. law empowering a grid operator to remotely disconnect large-load data centers, establishes a new compliance category: curtailment liability. This digest maps the statutory framework, proposed interconnection fees under PUCT draft rule 25.194, and the 27-state legislative wave, and assesses the contractual and jurisdictional risks counsel must address.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS-FederalCourtNERCToolData center UPS/ATSRuling dateJul 25, 2026What Happens Legally When an AI Data Center Trips the Grid?
AI data center UPS systems can silently trip over a gigawatt off the grid in milliseconds, yet no contract, statute, or regulatory standard assigns liability for the resulting disturbance. This analysis maps the novel legal exposures—negligence, products liability, SLA disputes, and FERC enforcement—for data center operators, AI companies, and utilities before the first precedent-setting case.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtFERCToolAI workloadsRuling dateJul 22, 2026PJM Disconnect Exposes Legal Vacuum in AI Power Grid Regulation
The July 22, 2026 mass data center disconnect on PJM triggered voltage disturbances across the Mid-Atlantic and exposed a regulatory vacuum. This article identifies the four liability vectors counsel must track: ratepayer cost-shifting at FERC, reliability complaints, contract disputes over backup generation, and jurisdictional litigation over load reduction authority.
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NOT APPLICABLEUpdatedJurisdictionUnited StatesCourtInternal Revenue ServiceToolNoneRuling dateJul 25, 2026Mega Backdoor Roth for Startup Founders in 2026
Startup founders can contribute up to ~$47,500 annually in after-tax Roth space through a Solo 401(k) mega backdoor Roth—but only if they adopt a custom plan document, as standard Fidelity/Schwab/Vanguard plans lack the required provisions. This article explains the 2026 limits, the three non-negotiable plan provisions, and common execution errors to avoid.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtUnited States District CourtsToolOpenAI o4-miniRuling dateJun 2, 2026How an AI Math Proof Reveals Law's Verification Crisis
The same AI that solved an 80-year-old math conjecture also produces confident-sounding errors half the time — a verification failure pattern that directly maps to the hallucination crisis now generating 1,000+ US sanction rulings. This article examines the Leiden Declaration's warning and what it means for attorneys relying on AI tools.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtU.S. District Court for the Western District of MichiganToolNoneRuling dateJul 23, 2026Muskegon Heights money laundering case unsealed after clemency
A record of federal money laundering conspiracy charges against Lakento Brian Smith, filed July 20 and unsealed July 23, 2026, after his 2025 clemency. Details investigation methods, financial figures, and the clemency-to-recidivism risk signal for supervised-release practice.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionBrazilCourtBrazilian CourtToolCourt AI SystemRuling dateMay 1, 2026When an uploaded image controls your legal AI output
Image-based prompt injection is an active vulnerability class that bypasses text-layer sanitization in multimodal legal AI tools. This risk digest documents the known attack techniques, success rates, and the real-world legal-tech incident that proves the vector is not theoretical.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUSCourtNHLToolNoneRuling dateJul 23, 2026Legal Risk Breakdown of Patrick Kane's Blackhawks Contract
This analysis applies a legal risk-assessment framework to Patrick Kane's two-year, $16M contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, identifying five structural features that create moderate-to-high club exposure. The contract's full no-movement clause, concentrated signing-bonus payments, above-market age premium, constraints under the new CBA MOU, and 35+ classification combine to eliminate typical club mitigation levers.
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CONFIRMEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS federalCourtU.S. District Court for the Western District of WashingtonToolAmazon PrimeRuling dateJun 23, 2025Amazon Prime Settlement Compliance Guide for Legal-Tech
This article analyzes the FTC's $2.5 billion Amazon Prime settlement to extract a compliance framework for legal-tech subscription products, showing how three specific dark patterns now constitute presumptively unlawful designs under ROSCA and Section 5 of the FTC Act.
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REPORTED — UNVERIFIEDUpdatedJurisdictionUS FederalCourtFederal District CourtToolNoneRuling dateJul 22, 2026Can Caitlin Clark Sue Over an Emmett Till Comparison?
This article analyzes whether Caitlin Clark could successfully sue Nancy Armour and USA Today for the Emmett Till comparison column, examining the public-figure actual-malice standard, the opinion defense, and the narrow vulnerability created by the column's verifiable factual claims.
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