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Sanctions — Week of 2025-08-25

28 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-08-25 and 2025-08-31 (ISO week 2025-W35). 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
28
With monetary penalty
3 of 28
Courts
27
ISO week
2025-W35

Outcomes this week

  • Warning6
  • Arguments Ignored3
  • 3 Hours Of Cle To Be Proven1
  • Bar Referral1
  • Corrections To Filings Ordered1
  • Court Denied Defendant's Motions; Sentencing Ordered To Proceed As Scheduled; No Professional Sanctions Imposed.1
  • Fine, Adverse Costs Order, Bar Referral1
  • Magistrate Judge Recommended Rule 11 Sanctions1
  • Monetary Sanction; Complaint Dismissed Without Prejudice; Leave To Amend Granted.1
  • Monetary Sanction; Referral1
  • Order To Show Cause1
  • Plaintiff Ordered To Exclude All Gen Ai Material1
  • Referral To District Ad Hoc Committee And The Florida Bar For Investigation1
  • Show Cause Order1
  • Tribunal Criticised The Reliability Of Ai-assisted Expert Reports And Gave Them Reduced Weight1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied22
  • Unidentified3
  • Google Gemini1
  • Implied (by me)1
  • Microsoft CoPilot1

This week’s read-across

28 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-08-25 and 2025-08-31. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (6 of 28). Of the 28 rulings, 3 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 2025-08-25

USA v. Sethi

E.D. Texas · Decided 2025-08-28 · Court denied defendant's motions; sentencing ordered to proceed as scheduled; no professional sanctions imposed. · 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.