Sanctions — Week of 2024-12-02

3 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2024-12-02 and 2024-12-08 (ISO week 2024-W49). 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: 3
With monetary penalty: 0 of 3
Courts: 3
ISO week: 2024-W49

Outcomes this week

Appeals Dismissed As Sanction; Appellant Barred From Future Pro Se Filings In Related Probate Matters Without Attorney Signature1
Complaint Dismissed With Prejudice; No Rule 11 Sanctions Imposed, But Clear Judicial Warning On Ai Misuse And Citation Verification Duties1
No Formal Sanction; Fabricated Citations Disregarded1

AI tool implicated

Unidentified2
Unknown1

This week’s read-across

3 rulings landed on the docket between 2024-12-02 and 2024-12-08. The most common recorded outcome this week was Appeals Dismissed As Sanction; Appellant Barred From Future Pro Se Filings In Related Probate Matters Without Attorney Signature (1 of 3). No rulings this week specified a dollar-figure monetary penalty in the docket text — but bar referrals, adverse-costs orders, and case-standing consequences apply regardless.

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.