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AI Legal Sanction Case Database

Name: AI Legal Sanction Case Database
Creator: Citation Safe
License: https://citationsafe.com/terms

The AI Legal Sanction Case Database is the authoritative, continuously-updated, free index of publicly reported cases where a US or foreign court sanctioned, warned, or issued an order to show cause over AI-hallucinated citations in a legal filing. According to Citation Safe’s public sanctions database, courts have addressed AI-citation problems in 1000 reported cases tracked here as of today, spanning 2023–2026. New cases are ingested daily.

Cases tracked: 1,898
Courts covered: 393
Cases with a reported penalty: 349
USD-denominated penalties: $1,290,986; across 191 USD cases — other currencies not converted

This is the structured dataset: every row here is a live, queryable record — sortable and filterable by jurisdiction, AI tool, judge, and year, with results pulled fresh on every request. Download the full dataset as CSV. For curated write-ups of the highest-profile entries — case background, why each sanction happened, what to take from it — see the AI Hallucination Sanctions Tracker, our editorial companion to this database.

1,898 cases match these filters · page 19 of 38

Case	Court	Jurisdiction	Judge	Decided	AI tool	Outcome	Penalty	Source
Corst v. Mushailov	CC New York	USA	—	2026-01-15	Implied	Apology from Counsel	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
James Fahey v. Wally’s Las Vegas, LLC, et al.	D. Nevada	USA	—	2026-01-15	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Kisha Peters v. Banner Health	S.D. Texas	USA	—	2026-01-15	ChatGPT	Recommended Dismissal with Prejudice	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
North Atlantic Operating Company, Inc., et al. v. Indiana Import, LLC, et al.	S.D. Indiana	USA	—	2026-01-15	Implied	Warning; Order to retain local counsel	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Re: IMO the Estate of Joseph L. Weddington	Delaware Ch.	USA	—	2026-01-15	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Alzado-Lotz v. Bock	D. Colorado	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Hodges v. Meridian Waste & Rieske v. AFS	M.D. Florida	USA	—	2026-01-16	Unidentified	Adverse costs order; requirement to speak to bar associations or law students about experience	7000 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Lutfi v. Tucker	Federal Circuit and Family Court	Australia	—	2026-01-16	Unidentified	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Osborne Properties Limited Partnership v. Fartun Abdullahi Mohamed et al.	DC Minnesotta	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	Citations Struck; Monetary Sanctions; Bar Referral	5000 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Rev. Heidi Grossman Lepp v. Conrad Mallett, Jr., et al.	E.D. Michigan	USA	—	2026-01-16	OpenAI ChatGPT-4o	Arguments ignored	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Riverchase v. Paula Goldwyn	CA Kansas	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Robby Mendez v. City of Topeka, et al.	D. Kansas	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Robert Huish v The Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs	First-tier Tribunal	UK	—	2026-01-16	Unidentified	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Steven E. Hobbs, Sr. v. Igor Goncharko, et al. (2)	N.D. Illinois	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Tafah et al. v. Lake Village Townhomes et al.	D. Maryland	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Tiffany K. v. Commissioner of Social Security	E.D. Michigan	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
X. v. Canada	D. DC	USA	—	2026-01-16	Implied	Adverse Costs order	None reported	No source on file
Amit Arora v. Canadian National Railway	Federal Court	Canada	—	2026-01-19	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Riley v. Nuvei Australia Merchant Services	Fair Work Commission	Australia	—	2026-01-19	Unidentified	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Uganda v. Tugume Abubakar	High Court	Uganda	—	2026-01-19	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Your Home Partners v. Kellichan	Sheriffdom of Tayside	UK	—	2026-01-19	Unidentified	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Mary Stephens v. Helena-West Helena School District	E.D. Arkansas	USA	—	2026-01-20	Implied	Order to Show Cause	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Mitchell Taylor Button et al. v. John Jimison (2)	W.D. Washington	USA	—	2026-01-20	Implied	Struck filings	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Oluronke Briana Adusei v. Colleen Auer, et al.	D. Arizona	USA	—	2026-01-20	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Pellegrino v. York Condominium Corporation No. 486	CAT	Canada	—	2026-01-20	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Peter J. Allsot v. Naseem Latif	M.D. Florida	USA	—	2026-01-20	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Waddell (Re)	Ontario SCJ	Canada	—	2026-01-20	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Yue v. Reaction Labs, LLC	W.D. Texas	USA	—	2026-01-20	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Zou v. Miracon Development Inc.	SC British Columbia	Canada	—	2026-01-20	Implied	Monetary Sanction	200 CAD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Cruz v. Manzano y Asociados	Concepción	Chile	—	2026-01-21	Implied	Monetary Sanction	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Forbes Monaco APAC v Kawajiri Seiji	High Court	Singapore	—	2026-01-21	Unidentified	Misconduct taken into account for adverse costs order	30000 SGD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Kaufman v. Upton	D. Massachusetts	USA	—	2026-01-21	Implied	Bar Referral	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Solomon A. Jones v. Kankakee County Sheriff's Department, et al.	7th Cir. CA	USA	—	2026-01-21	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Volesky v. Department of Child Safety	CA Arizona	USA	—	2026-01-21	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
William Parker v. Patrick "Pat" Labat, et al.	N.D. Georgia	USA	—	2026-01-21	Unidentified	CLE; Sworn statement	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Avalon Holdings Corp. v. Guy Gentile	S.D. New York	USA	—	2026-01-22	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Fatih Gazioğlu v. KKTC Başsavcısı	Yargıtay/Asli Yetki	Northern Cyprus (KKTC)	—	2026-01-22	Implied	Leave to apply for certiorari/prohibition granted	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Gonen v. Ashkenazi	Tel Aviv Magistrate Court	Israel	—	2026-01-22	Implied	Claim dismissed	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
McNeal v. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555; Safeway, Inc.	D. Oregon	USA	—	2026-01-22	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Sidni Campbell v. John Campbell, Jr.	CA Texas	USA	—	2026-01-22	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
That Xiong v. Minga Wofford (1)	E.D. California	USA	—	2026-01-22	ChatGPT	Order to inform client and staff of errors	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Tolbert v. State	CA Georgia	USA	—	2026-01-22	Implied	Counsel to serve opinion on client and State Bar; CLE; Bar referral	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ann K. Cady, Beth L. Corning, and Caron G. Roesler v. Matthew C. O'Malley	CA Wisconsin	USA	—	2026-01-23	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Dennis Thornton v. Flathead County, et al.	D. Montana	USA	—	2026-01-23	Implied	Order to file conventional hard-copy source documents for every cited authority	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Femhealth USA Carafem v. Rickey Nelson Williams	M.D. Tennessee	USA	—	2026-01-23	Implied	Arguments Struck; Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Future Field Solutions, LLC v. Van Norstrand	D. Maryland	USA	—	2026-01-23	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Future Field Solutions v. Nordstrand	D. Maryland	USA	—	2026-01-23	Implied	No Sanctions at this time	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Gu v Fogler Rubinoff	SCJ Ontario	Canada	—	2026-01-23	Unidentified	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Mykhal Lloyd Polite v. TitleMax of Arizona	D. Arizona	USA	—	2026-01-23	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
United States v. Michael Shane DeBaere (2)	W.D. Virginia	USA	—	2026-01-23	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)

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This database aggregates publicly reported court sanctions and orders over AI-hallucinated citations. It is informational only, not legal advice, and not a complete record of every such case nationwide — see our free citation checker to verify your own filings before this happens to you.