Peter Gilmai v Abel Tol & Ors
National Court of Justice at Lae · Decided 2025-05-09 · Referral to Public Solicitor and PNG Law Society; Order to show cause · AI tool: ChatGPT.
Sanctions — Week of 2025-05-05
5 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-05-05 and 2025-05-11 (ISO week 2025-W19). 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
- 1 of 5
- Courts
- 4
- ISO week
- 2025-W19
Outcomes this week
- Monetary Sanction; Bar Referral1
- No Sanction Imposed; Judge Criticized The Error As A “disgrace”; Granted Partial Relief To Applicant1
- Referral To Public Solicitor And Png Law Society; Order To Show Cause1
- Striking Of Briefs; Denial Of Requested Discovery Relief; Large Monetary Sanctions Jointly And Severally Against The Two Law Firms1
- Warning1
AI tool implicated
- ChatGPT1
- CoCounsel, Westlaw Precision, Google Gemini1
- Implied1
- Lexis+AI1
- Unidentified1
This week’s read-across
5 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-05-05 and 2025-05-11. The most common recorded outcome this week was Monetary Sanction; Bar Referral (1 of 5). Of the 5 rulings, 1 carried an explicit monetary penalty in the ruling text.
ChatGPT 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 2025-05-05
Israel v. Ibrahim Mahajneh
Israel · Decided 2025-05-07 · No sanction imposed; judge criticized the error as a “disgrace”; granted partial relief to applicant · AI tool: Unidentified.
Harris v. Take-Two Interactive Software
D. Colorado · Decided 2025-05-06 · Warning · AI tool: Implied.
Lacey v. State Farm General Insurance
C.D. California · Decided 2025-05-06 · Striking of briefs; denial of requested discovery relief; Large monetary sanctions jointly and severally against the two law firms · Penalty: 31100 USD · AI tool: CoCounsel, Westlaw Precision, Google Gemini.
Flowz Digital v. Caroline Dalal
C.D. California · Decided 2025-05-05 · Monetary Sanction; Bar Referral · AI tool: Lexis+AI.
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