AI Risk Wire

AI lawsuits

68 of 716 published cases name a lawsuit, court or sanction

Kind: all · invented legal citations 13 · not stated 12 · chatbot harm 3 · vehicle crash 3

Developer: all · not stated 31 · OpenAI 20 · Tesla 5 · Google 3 · xAI 3 · Character.AI 2 · Perplexity 2 · Anthropic 1 · Figure AI 1

CaseKind; primary riskDeveloperSeverityEvidenceDisclosedSourcesCourt filingMatched
Actress Rupali Ganguly seeks Bombay High Court protection over AI deepfake images and morphed videos on adult websites LR-2026-0832not stated; Privacy harm to a personnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-11-031none heldc
New York Times sues Brave over alleged scraping and redistribution of copyrighted content to AI companies LR-2026-0819not stated; Copyright and IPnot statedmoderateConfirmed2026-11-022none heldb, c
Brazilian lawyers fined for hidden prompt injection targeting court AI Galileu LR-2026-0810not stated; Hidden instructions hijack the agentnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-11-012none heldc
Connecticut pro se plaintiff sanctioned for prompt injection against court AI tool LR-2026-0102not stated; Hidden instructions hijack the agentnot statedminorPreliminary2026-09-292none heldc
Lawyer under fire over AI-generated court filing LR-2026-0736invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-09-171none heldc
State Farm lawyer sanctioned $999.99 for seven AI-fabricated case citations in Los Angeles insurance filings LR-2026-0079invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-09-151none heldc
Illinois appeals court fines lawyer $15,000 over AI-generated fake citations LR-2026-0704invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-08-033none heldc
Lawsuit alleges AI hallucinations tainted US Army contract award to Southwest Range Services LR-2026-0651not stated; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-07-291none heldc
Lancaster Country Day sued over students' AI deepfakes of peers LR-2026-0656not stated; Manipulation and misinformationnot statedmajorPreliminary2026-07-273none heldc
Family sues OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT role in Alabama woman's death LR-2026-0625chatbot harm; Manipulation and misinformationnot statedseverePreliminary2026-07-173none heldc
Federal appeals court refers Anthony Sabatini over AI-faked citations LR-2026-0655invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-07-101none heldc
Lawsuit alleges man used Grok to create sexual images of his stepdaughter LR-2026-0645not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaksnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-07-082none heldc
Judge throws out case after lawyers admit AI briefs with fake citations LR-2026-0577invented legal citations; Over-reliance and loss of human oversightnot statedminorPreliminary2026-06-151none heldc
Florida attorney general sues OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT harms LR-2026-0557chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harmnot statedmajorPreliminary2026-06-012none heldc
Pinsent Masons reprimanded over AI hallucinations in UK court filings LR-2026-0535invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-05-263none heldc
Canadian court annuls arbitral award over delegation to AI LR-2026-0538invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-05-131none heldc
Attorney sanctioned for AI misuse in Hyde School lawsuit LR-2026-0537not stated; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-05-071none heldc
Alabama Supreme Court fines lawyer and tosses case over AI misuse LR-2026-0503not stated; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-04-271none heldc
Attorney sanctioned for filing brief with AI-generated hallucinations LR-2026-0492invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-04-271none heldc
Court rejects challenge to Met Police live facial recognition use LR-2026-0520not stated; Privacy harm to a personnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-04-213none heldc
Wrongful death lawsuit after driver trapped in burning Model Y LR-2026-0524vehicle crash; Physical harmnot statedseverePreliminary2026-04-131none heldc
Man sues city after AI camera flags him for wrongful arrest LR-2026-0516not stated; Over-reliance and loss of human oversightnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-04-123none heldc
Lawsuit alleges Reno police made thousands of unlawful facial ID arrests LR-2026-0515not stated; Over-reliance and loss of human oversightnot statedmoderatePreliminary2026-04-082none heldc
Federal judge proposes sanctions against Mike Lindell's lawyers over fake citations LR-2026-0478invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-04-011none heldc
Attorney fined for citing AI-generated cases LR-2026-0465invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-03-261none heldc
Lawsuits over fatal Tesla Model 3 crash where Autopilot is disputed LR-2026-0483vehicle crash; Physical harmnot statedseverePreliminary2026-03-193none heldc
Judge tosses case over fake AI citations, including references to Fahrenheit 451 LR-2026-0436invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedminorPreliminary2026-02-062none heldc
Family blames Tesla Autosteer after four relatives killed, lawsuit says LR-2026-0357vehicle crash; Physical harmnot statedseverePreliminary2026-01-011none heldc
Lawyer sanctioned over hallucinated material in OnlyFans case LR-2026-0368invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedmoderatePreliminary2025-12-161none heldc
Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT encouraged a violent stalker LR-2026-0343chatbot harm; Harmful content and jailbreaksnot statedmajorPreliminary2025-12-041none heldc
Bankruptcy judge reprimands ex-Gordon Rees lawyer over AI citations LR-2026-0324invented legal citations; Made-up output relied onnot statedmoderatePreliminary2025-11-211none heldc

Which cases are listed

a: a source is a court filing; b: a tag is one of: lawsuit, court, sanction, wrongful-death, litigation; c: the title has one of: lawsuit, lawsuits, sued, sues, suing, court, courts, judge, sanctioned, fined.

A filed suit is not a heard one. Words in a title can occur in cases about AI that is not in litigation, so each row shows which rule matched. The page does not track case status, verdicts, settlements or damages.

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