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Sanctions — Week of 2025-07-28

20 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-07-28 and 2025-08-03 (ISO week 2025-W31). 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
20
With monetary penalty
9 of 20
Courts
20
ISO week
2025-W31

Outcomes this week

  • Warning4
  • Admonishment And Warning1
  • Cases Dismissed Without Prejudice, Attorney Ordered To Pay Defendants' Attorney Fees, Referred To Florida Bar.1
  • Contempt Findings (on This And Other Grounds)1
  • Costs Awarded Against The Father (partly For Relying On Faked Cases).1
  • Dismissal With Prejudice1
  • Monetary Sanction1
  • Monetary Sanction; Referral To The Bar1
  • Motion Adjourned, Opposing Party's Costs To Be Compensated1
  • No Monetary Sanctions Imposed; Warning Issued1
  • Order To Pay Opposing Counsel's Fees1
  • Overall Issue Of Hallucination Referred To The Bar; Order To Bear Costs1
  • Refusal Of Strike-out Application With Finding Of Unreasonable Conduct1
  • Sanctioned To Repay Opposing Party's Counsel Fees1
  • Sanctions1
  • Warning (second)1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied11
  • Unidentified4
  • ChatGPT3
  • MS Copilot1
  • Not specified1

This week’s read-across

20 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-07-28 and 2025-08-03. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (4 of 20). Of the 20 rulings, 9 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 2025-07-28

Courts represented this week

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