Ehrlich v. Israel National Academy of Sciences et al.
Israel · Decided 2025-05-18 · Request dismissed on the merits, monetary sanction · Penalty: 500 ILS · AI tool: Unidentified.
Sanctions — Week of 2025-05-12
12 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-05-12 and 2025-05-18 (ISO week 2025-W20). 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
- 12
- With monetary penalty
- 6 of 12
- Courts
- 8
- ISO week
- 2025-W20
Outcomes this week
- Application For Extension Of Time Refused; Appeal Struck Out As Abuse Of Process; Indemnity Costs Of £24,727.20 Ordered; Permission To Appeal Denied1
- Case Dismissed, In Part As A Sanction For Fabrication Of Legal Authorities1
- Case Summarily Dismissed; Counsel Referred To The Bar Association; Claimant Ordered To Pay Double The Costs1
- General Civil Restraint Order (gcro) Granted For 3 Years; Case Referred To Attorney General; Costs Awarded To Applicants.1
- Monetary Sanction Against Counsel Personally; No Disciplinary Referral1
- Motion Dismissed, And Plaintiff Ordered To Refile It Without Fake Citations.1
- No Formal Sanction; Request By Court For Explanation; Partial Costs Awarded Against The Defendant1
- No Immediate Sanction Imposed; The Matter Was Referred To The Legal Department Of The Court Administration For Review And Potential Action, Including Referral To The Ethics Committee Of The Israel Bar Association1
- No Sanction Imposed; Court Reminded Plaintiff Of Rule 11 Obligations1
- Reclamação Found Manifestly Unfounded; Bad Faith And Monetary Sanction (double Court Costs); Oab And Oab/ba To Be Notified1
- Request Dismissed On The Merits, Monetary Sanction1
- Warning1
AI tool implicated
- Implied5
- Unidentified3
- Google Search (Allegedly)1
- Implied use of MobiOffice's AI Assistant1
- MobiOffice1
- Westlaw's AI tools, GPT4.5 Deep Research (Pro)1
This week’s read-across
12 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-05-12 and 2025-05-18. The most common recorded outcome this week was Application For Extension Of Time Refused; Appeal Struck Out As Abuse Of Process; Indemnity Costs Of £24,727.20 Ordered; Permission To Appeal Denied (1 of 12). Of the 12 rulings, 6 carried an explicit monetary penalty in the ruling text.
Implied was the most-implicated AI tool this week (courts rarely require the attorney to name the tool by product name on the record; “Implied” means the ruling described an AI-generated brief without a product name).
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 2025-05-12
Keaau Development Partnership LLC v. Lawrence
Hawaii ICA · Decided 2025-05-15 · Monetary sanction against counsel personally; no disciplinary referral · Penalty: 100 USD · AI tool: Implied.
USA v. Burke
M.D. Florida · Decided 2025-05-15 · Motion dismissed, and plaintiff ordered to refile it without fake citations. · AI tool: Westlaw's AI tools, GPT4.5 Deep Research (Pro).
Beenshoof v. Chin
W.D. Washington · Decided 2025-05-15 · No sanction imposed; court reminded Plaintiff of Rule 11 obligations · AI tool: Implied.
Fox v. Assum
Israel · Decided 2025-05-14 · No formal sanction; request by court for explanation; partial costs awarded against the defendant · Penalty: 1200 ILS · AI tool: Unidentified.
Department of Justice v Wise
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal · Decided 2025-05-13 · Warning · AI tool: Implied.
Bandla v. Solicitors Regulation Authority
UK · Decided 2025-05-13 · Application for extension of time refused; appeal struck out as abuse of process; indemnity costs of £24,727.20 ordered; permission to appeal denied · Penalty: 24727 GBP · AI tool: Google Search (Allegedly).
Reclamação (RCL) 78.890 / BA
Supremo Tribunal Federal · Decided 2025-05-12 · Reclamação found manifestly unfounded; bad faith and monetary sanction (double court costs); OAB and OAB/BA to be notified · Penalty: 1 · AI tool: MobiOffice.
Newbern v. Desoto County School District et al.
N.D. Mississippi · Decided 2025-05-12 · Case dismissed, in part as a sanction for fabrication of legal authorities · AI tool: Implied.
Jamisson Roriz de Santana Andrade v. Tribunal Superior do Trabalho
Supremo Tribunal Federal · Decided 2025-05-12 · Case summarily dismissed; Counsel referred to the Bar Association; Claimant ordered to pay double the costs · AI tool: Implied use of MobiOffice's AI Assistant.
Crypto Open Patent Alliance v. Wright (2)
UK · Decided 2025-05-12 · General Civil Restraint Order (GCRO) granted for 3 years; Case referred to Attorney General; Costs awarded to applicants. · Penalty: 100000 GBP · AI tool: Implied.
Case No. 72079-11-24
Israel · Decided 2025-05-12 · No immediate sanction imposed; the matter was referred to the Legal Department of the Court Administration for review and potential action, including referral to the Ethics Committee of the Israel Bar Association · AI tool: Unidentified.
Courts represented this week
Nearby weeks
Get the Sanctions Alert — a new issue every time a ruling lands.
Free double-opt-in newsletter. Case, sanction, fake cites, lesson. No promotional content.
Informational only. Not legal advice. Data derived from public court records; corrections at /contact.