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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: 1,902
Courts covered: 396
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.

1,295 cases match these filters · page 5 of 26

Case	Court	Jurisdiction	Judge	Decided	AI tool	Outcome	Penalty	Source
Hoagland Family Limited Partnership v. Town of Clear Lake	CA Indiana	USA	—	2026-06-22	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Zhdanovich-Doty v. Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company	N.D. California	USA	—	2026-06-22	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
In re the Marriage of Cristina Anderson and Edward Allyn Volovlek	CA Colorado	USA	—	2026-06-18	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Jonathan David Deak v. Mike Schuitema, et al.	W.D. Michigan	USA	—	2026-06-18	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Preston House v. TH Foods, Inc.	D. Nevada	USA	—	2026-06-18	Implied	Briefs struck; Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Progressive Northern Insurance Company v. Tony Pete Flores, et al.	D. Nevada	USA	—	2026-06-18	Unidentified	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Joyce Barber v. Lawrence J. Morawa, MD	CA Michigan	USA	—	2026-06-17	Unidentified	Case remanded to consider sanctions; Bar Referral	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Hayes v. Miller	CA Missouri	USA	—	2026-06-16	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Holstein v. Holstein	CA Indiana	USA	—	2026-06-16	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Jacob Doe v. The University of North Carolina System, et al.	W.D. North Carolina	USA	—	2026-06-16	Unidentified	No sanction (but strong disappointment)	None reported	Source (reason.com)
K.W. v. Ringwood Board of Education	D. New Jersey	USA	—	2026-06-16	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ngaruiya v. Gill	CA Arizona (1d)	USA	—	2026-06-16	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Olutosin Ajakaiye v. Omowunmi H. Oladipupo	CA Maryland	USA	—	2026-06-16	Implied	Bar Referral	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
OS-DB-JV-2, LLC	GAO	USA	—	2026-06-16	Unidentified	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Polanco v. Brooklyn Rose LLC	SC New York	USA	—	2026-06-16	Implied	Sanctions Hearing	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Amazon.com Inc. et al. v. Kathy Q. Hao et al.	W.D. Washington	USA	—	2026-06-15	Unidentified	Brief Struck; Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Andria Borsody v. Frontier Heritage Communities	10th Cir. CA	USA	—	2026-06-15	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Chapter Kris Jackson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., et al.	10th Cir. CA	USA	—	2026-06-15	Unidentified	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
David R. Pete v. Greg Abbott, et al.	E.D. Texas	USA	—	2026-06-15	Cetient	Monetary Sanctions	200 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Matthew Merz v. Harlyn Jenkins, Jillane Baros, Melinda Finn‑Kamerath	CA Washington	USA	—	2026-06-15	Implied	Sanctions affirmed	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Jason Wimberly v. Verizon New York Inc.	S.D. New York	USA	—	2026-06-12	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Shaddai Harris v. Nadia Lyotard and Mitchell Sadler	CA Texas	USA	—	2026-06-12	Implied	Order to amend brief	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Vargas v. MTA Bus Co.	N.Y. Sup. (New York County)	USA	—	2026-06-12	Implied	Court acknowledged the opposition contained citations to non-existent cases, found the legal propositions cited were nonetheless true, declined to attribute those non-existent citations to appellate counsel for Paez Rodriguez, and imposed no sanction.	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
McCormick v. Texakoma Financial	E.D. Texas	USA	—	2026-06-11	Unidentified	Public Reprimand; Monetary Sanction; Firmwide citation review; CLE	6000 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC	CA California (1d)	USA	—	2026-06-11	Implied	Monetary Sanction; Bar referral	6000 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Villanueva v. Bowers	CA Arizona (1d)	USA	—	2026-06-11	Unidentified	Adverse Costs Order	1 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Henry County Schools et al. v. Grant et al.	CA Georgia	USA	—	2026-06-10	Implied	Trial court's order vacated	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Ifeoma Delliane Chinedu Obi v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. (2)	N.D. Illinois	USA	—	2026-06-10	Implied	Monetary Sanction; Struck Filing	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
In re Garcia-Martz	N.D. Indiana (Bankruptcy)	USA	—	2026-06-10	Implied	Order to Show Cause	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
State of Iowa ex rel J.G. v. Mynesia A. Anderson	CA Iowa	USA	—	2026-06-10	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Casey A. Gaddy v. Wood Brothers Bar, Inc., et al.	E.D. Pennsylvania	USA	—	2026-06-09	Unidentified	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Leafwell, Inc. v. The Doc App, Inc. (2)	M.D. Florida	USA	—	2026-06-09	Implied	Decline to add new sanctions	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
LiveVideo.AI Corp. v. Redstone	S.D. New York	USA	—	2026-06-09	Implied	Adverse Costs Order; Bar Referral	80056 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Perry v. Merrick Bank Corporation	D. Arizona	USA	—	2026-06-09	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Tlingit Haida Tribal Business Corporation v. OnePromom	D. Colorado	USA	—	2026-06-09	Eve Legal	Order to show cause	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Allison v. Shutterfly LifeTouch LLC	N.D. Illinois	USA	—	2026-06-08	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Bailey v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc.	W.D. Tennessee	USA	—	2026-06-08	Unidentified	Order to correct motion	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Erica Whitesock v. Bird Global, Inc., and The City of Austin	Texas	USA	—	2026-06-08	Unidentified	Monetary Sanction; Notice to Client	10000 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Erica Whitesock v. Bird Rides, Inc., Third Lane Mobility, Inc. d/b/a Bird Global, Inc., and The City of Austin	250th Judicial District Court (Travis County, TX)	USA	—	2026-06-08	Unidentified	Court ordered Mr. Bradford Klager and his law firm Hilliard Law jointly and severally liable for $10,000 in attorney's fees to the City of Austin (and to provide a copy of the Order to his client).	1	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Withers v. City of Aberdeen	N.D. Mississippi	USA	—	2026-06-08	First Drafts	Revoked pro hac vice; DQ resident attorneys from the case; Monetary Fine; Bar Referrals	8000 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Young v. Young	CA Minnesotta	USA	—	2026-06-08	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Kendall E. Scheer v. Scheer Farms, LLC	CA Kansas	USA	—	2026-06-05	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Kisha Peters v. Banner Health	5th Cir. CA	USA	—	2026-06-04	Implied	Warning; Struck filing	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Lafaye B. Brown v. James E. Clarke, et al.	CA Maryland	USA	—	2026-06-04	Implied	—	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Mary McGreevy v. Adam Witkin	SC Oregon	USA	—	2026-06-04	Unidentified	Monetary Sanction; Brief Struck	500 USD	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Owens v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.	E.D. New York	USA	—	2026-06-04	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Washington v. Washington	CA Georgia	USA	—	2026-06-04	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Y.S. v. John Doe, et al.	D. Colorado	USA	—	2026-06-04	Implied	Warning	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Euphoric, LLC et al. v. Westport Community Improvement District, et al.	W.D. Missouri	USA	—	2026-06-03	Implied	Admonishment	None reported	Case summary (Charlotin AI Hallucination Cases DB)
Lnu v. Blanche	9th Cir. CA	USA	—	2026-06-03	Unidentified	Monetary Sanction; 6-month Suspension; Notification Requirement; Bar Suspension	5000 USD	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.