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2026-04-21 12:30
Brigandi Case: How a $110,000 AI Hallucination Sanction Rewrites Risk for Legal AI Systems
Originally published on CoreProse KB-incidents
When two lawyers in Oregon filed briefs packed with fake cases and fabricated quotations, the result was not a quirky “AI fail”—it was a $110,000 sanction, dismissal with prejudice, and a public ethics disaster. [1][5]
For ML and platform engineers, the Brigandi matter is a concrete signal: if your system can move unverified model output into co...