Dog Rights v. Ministry of Agriculture
High Court · Decided 2025-02-28 · Petition dismissed on threshold grounds for lack of clean hands and inadequate legal foundation. Petitioner ordered to pay costs · Penalty: 7000 ILS · AI tool: Implied.
Sanctions — Week of 2025-02-24
5 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-02-24 and 2025-03-02 (ISO week 2025-W09). 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
- 5
- With monetary penalty
- 3 of 5
- Courts
- 4
- ISO week
- 2025-W09
Outcomes this week
- $3k Fine + Pro Hac Vice Revoked (drafter); $1k Fine Each (signers); Remedial Actions Noted.1
- Monetary Sanction + Mandatory Cle On Ai And Legal Ethics1
- Petition Dismissed On Threshold Grounds For Lack Of Clean Hands And Inadequate Legal Foundation. Petitioner Ordered To Pay Costs1
AI tool implicated
- Unidentified2
- ChatGPT1
- Implied1
- Internal tool (ChatGPT)1
This week’s read-across
5 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-02-24 and 2025-03-02. The most common recorded outcome this week was $3k Fine + Pro Hac Vice Revoked (drafter); $1k Fine Each (signers); Remedial Actions Noted. (1 of 5). Of the 5 rulings, 3 carried an explicit monetary penalty in the ruling text.
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 2025-02-24
Bunce v. Visual Technology Innovations (1)
E.D. Pennsylvania · Decided 2025-02-27 · Monetary Sanction + Mandatory CLE on AI and Legal Ethics · Penalty: 2500 USD · AI tool: ChatGPT.
Yu Hon Tong Thomas v Centaline Property Agency
High Court · Decided 2025-02-26 · AI tool: Unidentified.
Merz v. Kalama
W.D. Washington · Decided 2025-02-25 · AI tool: Unidentified.
Wadsworth v. Walmart (Morgan & Morgan)
D. Wyoming · Decided 2025-02-24 · $3k Fine + Pro Hac Vice Revoked (Drafter); $1k Fine each (Signers); Remedial actions noted. · Penalty: 5000 USD · AI tool: Internal tool (ChatGPT).
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