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      "title": "Legal AI in India: the second-largest search market, nine court decisions and a rulebook still in draft",
      "summary": "India searches 'legal ai' 8,100 times a month against 9,900 in the US; its courts have acted on eight matters built on fake authority; its rulebook is in draft.",
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      "date": "2026-09-04",
      "title": "India's Supreme Court sets aside customs penalty over AI-hallucinated citations",
      "summary": "The Supreme Court of India set aside a Rs 425.28 crore customs penalty after finding fake or misused AI-generated authorities in the order.",
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      "title": "May judges and court staff use AI in their own work?",
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      "title": "Must lawyers verify AI output before relying on it?",
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      "title": "Summer 2026 in legal AI regulation: SRA warning notice, mandatory Irish declaration and a deferred EU Act",
      "summary": "Summer 2026 reviewed: the SRA's AI warning notice, Ireland's mandatory AI declaration in civil filings and the EU's deferred high-risk AI Act duties.",
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      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "title": "Vijay Ghanshyam Gadiya v. Union of India, 2026 INSC 947",
      "summary": "Extending Pooja Ramesh Singh from tribunals to executive adjudicators, the Supreme Court of India set aside a customs penalty order of INR 4.25 billion, and the High Court judgment upholding it, because the order relied on AI-hallucinated precedents. Justice Datta held even an iota of fake material vitiates a decision and left disciplinary action to the officer's appointing authority.",
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      "date": "2026-09-02",
      "title": "Vijay Ghanshyam Gadiya v Union of India, 2026 INSC 947",
      "summary": "Original judgment (Datta and Nagu JJ). Supreme Court judgment of 2 September 2026 setting aside a customs penalty of Rs 425.27 crore because the Additional Commissioner's order relied on AI-generated citations that were non-existent or misrepresented. AI may serve as training wheels but entrusting it with the pilot's seat would be imprudent and dangerous; the matter was remanded to a different officer.",
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