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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 26 of 38

Case	Court	Jurisdiction	Judge	Decided	AI tool	Outcome	Penalty	Source
Beedemariam Kassaw v. Wal-Mart Corporation	W.D. New York	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Brief Struck	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Danuta Dec v. Homeland Security	7th Cir. CA	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Edward Reynolds v. Progressive Technologies, Inc.	W.D. Tennessee	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ezequiel Cunha de Moura e outro v. Wallace de Moura Silva	TJ-RJ	Brazil	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Bar Referral	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Jacobs v. Payward, Inc.	D. Connecticut	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Megan E. Bryan v. Child Support Enforcement Agency, State of Hawaiʻi	SC Hawaiʻi	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Nicole Olbera, et al. v. Tiara Sykes	CA Indiana	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Randel Edward Page, Jr. v. Apperson Crump	W.D. Tennessee	USA	—	2026-03-30	Unidentified	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Shaun Fleck v. Del-One Federal Credit Union	D. Oregon	USA	—	2026-03-30	Unidentified	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Souza v. City of Fitchburg	D. Massachusetts	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Williams v. Chicago Board Of Education	N.D. Illinois	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Order to Explain	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Yves Hector Vimegnon v. Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc.	D. Oregon	USA	—	2026-03-30	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Chelsea Montes v. Suns Legacy Partners LLC	D. Arizona	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Adverse Costs Order; CLE; Notification	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Christopher A. Ambrose v. Bandy X. Lee	D. Connecticut	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Edward C. Allen v. Western Governors University, et al.	D. Nevada	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Case dismissed with prejudice; Adverse Costs Order	1 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Elbert Coleman, III; Elbert Coleman, IV v. Nexo Capital Inc.	S.D. Indiana	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ella and Ramin LLC v. Travelers Insurance Company	N.D. Illinois	USA	—	2026-03-31	Unidentified	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Evgeny Yaroshevsky v. Karlin et al.	E.D. New York	USA	—	2026-03-31	Gemini	Recommended adverse costs order	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Federal Trade Commission v. James D. Noland, Jr., et al.	D. Arizona	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Feldman & Trost v. District 6 Board of Education	C.D. Illinois	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ford v. Sherwin-Williams	D. Kansas	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Galang v. Canada (Attorney General)	B.C. Supreme Court	Canada	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Brief part struck	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Hampton v. Lofton	CA Arizona (1d)	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Heimkes v. Fairhope Motorcoach Resort Condominium Owners Association, Inc.	S.D. Alabama	USA	—	2026-03-31	Cocounsel (Westlaw)	Reprimand; Order to file order in subsequent cases; Bar Referral; Adverse Costs Order	55597	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Jaii LeShawn Quinones v. Unknown Love, et al.	E.D. Missouri	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Show Cause Order	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Joel A. Rivera v. Triad Properties Corporation, et al.	N.D. Alabama	USA	—	2026-03-31	ChatGPT	Public Reprimand; Disqualification; Bar Referral; Publication and Notice of Order; Adverse Costs Order	35603 USD	Source (reason.com)
Leonard Colbert v. County of Riverside	C.D. California	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Mohamed Hussain et al. v. Mansoor Quraishi et al.	SC Connecticut	USA	—	2026-03-31	Unidentified	Orde to Explain	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Nguedi v. General Dynamics Information Technology	D. DC	USA	—	2026-03-31	Unidentified	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Quandel Construction Group, Inc. v. Hunt Construction Group, Inc.	S.D. Ohio	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Order to Explain	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Rivera v. Triad Props. Corp.	N.D. Alabama	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Bar Referral; DQ; Adverse Costs Order; 3-month suspension	1 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Rosa Maria Cabrera Thompson v. Seattle Public Schools	W.D. Washington	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Order to Show Cause	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Rushing v. Rushing et al. and Christ Temple Apostolic Church-Fridley	CA Minnesota	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	CA greenlighted dismissal of case for AI misuse	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Staley v. City of Elba, et al.	M.D. Alabama	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
W Démolition	TE Liège	Belgium	—	2026-03-31	Unidentified	Monetary Fine; Bar Referral	500 EUR	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Zavadovsky v. Republic of Austria, et al.	D. DC	USA	—	2026-03-31	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
In the Interest of W.G., Minor Child	CA Iowa	USA	—	2026-04-01	Perplexity	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Joseph Maldonado v. Professional Animal Retirement Center	N.D. Indiana	USA	—	2026-04-01	Implied	Monetary Sanction; Bar Referral	1500 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Patrick Hrdlichka v. Samantha Bengston	CA Arkansas	USA	—	2026-04-01	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Saqib Kafeel v. Apple Inc., et al.	N.D. California	USA	—	2026-04-01	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
9525-1260 Québec inc. c. Donato	SC Québec	Canada	—	2026-04-02	Implied	No weight given to AI-generated submissions	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Kevin D. Turnage v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., et al.	D. Arizona	USA	—	2026-04-02	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Stanford v. Leinart	CA Texas	USA	—	2026-04-02	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ellen Michaelis v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society	SC New York	USA	—	2026-04-03	—	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
In re: Kathleen A Rabon	D. Connecticut (Bankruptcy)	USA	—	2026-04-03	Implied	Show Cause Order	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Kleyman Law Group, P.C. v. James Kaloidis	SC New York	USA	—	2026-04-03	Implied	Sanctions	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Modern Floor Specialists, Inc. et al. v. City of Los Angeles et al.	C.D. California	USA	—	2026-04-03	Implied	Order to Show Cause	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Najafpir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.	N.D. California	USA	—	2026-04-03	Implied	Claim dismissed with prejudice	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
United States v. Farris	6th Cir. CA	USA	—	2026-04-03	Westlaw CoCounsel	Counsel disqualified with no compensation for time served; Briefs locked; Bar Referral; Notice of Opinion	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ward v. Amazon.com Services LLC	W.D. Washington	USA	—	2026-04-03	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.