Thomas v. Pangburn
S.D. Georgia · Decided 2023-10-06 · Dismissal of Case as Sanction for Bad Faith + Judicial Rebuke · AI tool: Unidentified.
Sanctions — Week of 2023-09-25
1 AI-hallucination sanction decided between 2023-09-25 and 2023-10-01 (ISO week 2023-W40). Every ruling below is sourced from the public docket — case name, decided date, outcome, AI tool implicated (when named), and any monetary penalty language pulled verbatim from the ruling.
Week at a glance
- Total rulings
- 1
- With monetary penalty
- 0 of 1
- Courts
- 1
- ISO week
- 2023-W40
Outcomes this week
- Dismissal Of Case As Sanction For Bad Faith + Judicial Rebuke1
AI tool implicated
- Unidentified1
This week’s read-across
One AI-hallucination ruling landed on the docket this week. Small-N weeks are the norm — the pattern is set by the trailing 12-week average, not by any individual week’s count.
Unidentified was the most-implicated AI tool this week.
The pattern each week is remarkably stable: existence failures (Layer 1) dominate. Attorneys file briefs containing citations that do not exist in any primary source — usually because a general-purpose LLM fabricated the citation and no deterministic pre-filing check caught it. Every ruling below is a preventable filing. See /verify for the pre-filing tool.
All rulings, week of 2023-09-25
Courts represented this week
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