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Sanctions — Week of 2025-06-30

17 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-06-30 and 2025-07-06 (ISO week 2025-W27). 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
17
With monetary penalty
7 of 17
Courts
17
ISO week
2025-W27

Outcomes this week

  • Warning3
  • Ai-generated Materials Excluded From Evidence1
  • Application Dismissed1
  • Case Remanded; Monetary Penalty1
  • Court Admonished The Attorney And Warned That Knowingly Disseminating Untruths May Violate Brao §43a(3)1
  • Monetary Penalty1
  • Monetary Penalty Imposed1
  • Monetary Sanction1
  • Monetary Sanctions1
  • Order Of Costs To Other Party; No Professional Referral1
  • Order To Show Cause Issued; Potential Striking Of Motion1
  • Osc1
  • Plaintiff Required To Apologize And Pay Attorney's Fees1
  • Referral To The Legal Practice Council For Investigation1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied9
  • Unidentified4
  • ChatGPT2
  • Google Scholar (allegedly)1
  • Legal Genius1

This week’s read-across

17 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-06-30 and 2025-07-06. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (3 of 17). Of the 17 rulings, 7 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 2025-06-30

Courts represented this week

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