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Sanctions — Week of 2025-07-07

16 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-07-07 and 2025-07-13 (ISO week 2025-W28). 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
16
With monetary penalty
5 of 16
Courts
16
ISO week
2025-W28

Outcomes this week

  • Barred From Pursuing Claims Before The Board1
  • Case Dismissed; Motion To Alter Or Amend Denied1
  • Monetary And Professional Sanctions1
  • Monetary Sanctions1
  • Motion Record Removed From Court File; Costs Awarded To Applicant1
  • Motion Stricken1
  • Order To Show Cause Issued For Potential Sanctions1
  • Quashed And Remanded1
  • The Court Dismissed The Fabricated Evidence And Imposed A Fine.1
  • The Court Disregarded The Fabricated Citations And Did Not Impose Costs On The Self-represented Litigant.1
  • The Court Imposed A Monetary Penalty On The Party Responsible For The Fabricated Citations.1
  • Warning1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied8
  • Unidentified6
  • Claude Sonnet 41
  • Co-Pilot, Westlaw’s AI, Gemini, Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity1

This week’s read-across

16 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-07-07 and 2025-07-13. The most common recorded outcome this week was Barred From Pursuing Claims Before The Board (1 of 16). Of the 16 rulings, 5 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 2025-07-07

NCR v KKB

Court of King’s Bench of Alberta · Decided 2025-07-09 · The court disregarded the fabricated citations and did not impose costs on the self-represented litigant. · AI tool: Implied.

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Courts represented this week

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