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Tests whether each authority cited in a document actually supports the proposition it is cited for, remains good law, and is binding or merely persuasive in the forum the document is directed at — a substantive validity check, beyond confirming a citation exists and is quoted accurately. Use for "does this case actually support what we're citing it for", "is this authority still good law", "check whether these citations are binding on this court or just persuasive", or "stress-test the authorities in this opinion before we rely on them". Distinct from citation-integrity-checker (existence/accuracy only) and precedent-mapper (maps a body of authorities' relationships, not a specific document's citations for a specific use). Fires on any document whose citations need substantive validation before reliance.

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# Authority Validator

I am using the **Authority Validator** skill from Rohas Legal AI: tests whether a cited authority actually supports the point, is still good law, and binds this forum. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

## Purpose

Go beyond confirming a citation exists and is quoted accurately, to test whether it actually does the work the document asks of it: does the authority stand for the proposition cited, is it still good law, and does it bind (or merely persuade) the forum the document is directed at. A citation that exists, is accurately quoted, and is nonetheless being asked to support a proposition it does not actually establish is a more dangerous defect than a fabricated one, because it survives a surface check.

## Required inputs

Obtain the document containing the citations to be validated, and the forum the document is directed at (which court, tribunal, or regulator, and its position in the relevant hierarchy) — blocking, since binding-versus-persuasive status cannot be assessed without knowing the forum.

Where research tools or retrieval are available this session, use them to retrieve the actual text of each authority. Where they are not, or a specific authority cannot be retrieved, say so explicitly and produce a structured checklist of what needs manual verification rather than asserting a validation result that was not actually performed.
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