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Sanctions — Week of 2025-07-14

10 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-07-14 and 2025-07-20 (ISO week 2025-W29). 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
10
With monetary penalty
2 of 10
Courts
10
ISO week
2025-W29

Outcomes this week

  • Decision On Sanctions Reserved1
  • Defendants Ordered To Comply With Ai Rules; Potential Financial Sanctions Pending Hearing.1
  • Judge Withdrew The Order1
  • Misconduct Taken Into Account In Allocating Costs1
  • Monetary Sanction; Cle Requirement; Adverse Costs Order1
  • Reminder Of Lawyer's Duties1
  • Sanction Of $5,500 And Mandatory Ai Education1
  • Warning1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied4
  • Unidentified3
  • ChatGPT2
  • Perplexity1

This week’s read-across

10 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-07-14 and 2025-07-20. The most common recorded outcome this week was Decision On Sanctions Reserved (1 of 10). Of the 10 rulings, 2 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 2025-07-14

Courts represented this week

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