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Sanctions — Week of 2025-06-02

5 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-06-02 and 2025-06-08 (ISO week 2025-W23). 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
5
ISO week
2025-W23

Outcomes this week

  • Appeal Was Ultimately Dismissed On Merits; Monetary Sanction1
  • No Contempt, But Referral To Professional Bodies1
  • Relevant Motions Stricken1
  • Relevant Submissions Ignored1

AI tool implicated

  • Unidentified3
  • ChatGPT1
  • Implied1

This week’s read-across

5 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-06-02 and 2025-06-08. The most common recorded outcome this week was Appeal Was Ultimately Dismissed On Merits; Monetary Sanction (1 of 5). Of the 5 rulings, 1 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 2025-06-02

Courts represented this week

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