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Sanctions — Week of 2025-03-10

5 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-03-10 and 2025-03-16 (ISO week 2025-W11). 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
0 of 5
Courts
4
ISO week
2025-W11

Outcomes this week

  • Ai-use Certification Required For Future Filings1
  • Application For Judicial Review Denied; Express Judicial Rebuke For Misuse Of Ai1
  • Court Ignored Fake Citations And Granted Motion To Correct The Record1
  • No Financial Sanction; Formal Judicial Reprimand; Findings Of Procedural Misuse1
  • Order To Notify Client; No Fee Available For Counsel In This Case1

AI tool implicated

  • Unidentified3
  • ChatGPT2

This week’s read-across

5 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-03-10 and 2025-03-16. The most common recorded outcome this week was Ai-use Certification Required For Future Filings (1 of 5). 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.

All rulings, week of 2025-03-10

A v. B

Florence · Decided 2025-03-13 · No financial sanction; Formal Judicial Reprimand; Findings of procedural misuse · AI tool: ChatGPT.

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Informational only. Not legal advice. Data derived from public court records; corrections at /contact.