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Spain AI-generated legal citation sanctions

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Latest: Canary Islands court fines lawyer for using 48 fake AI-generated rulings

In late July 2026, Spain’s Supreme Court flagged the first known instance of an AI‑generated “hallucination” in a legal brief, where a lawyer cited non‑existent jurisprudence. The court ordered the attorney to verify eve