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Sanctions — Week of 2025-11-03

28 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-11-03 and 2025-11-09 (ISO week 2025-W45). 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
1 of 28
Courts
27
ISO week
2025-W45

Outcomes this week

  • Warning7
  • Order To Show Cause2
  • Admonishment1
  • Complaint Dismissed With Prejudice1
  • Costs Order; 6 Hours Cle On Generative Ai; Provide Order To Client; Bar Referral.1
  • Court Found Several Cited Rulings Non-existent Or Irrelevant, Rejected Reliance On That Case Law, And Dismissed The Appeal.1
  • Court Required Counsel To Certify Completion Of An Ai Seminar1
  • Order Quashed1
  • Show Cause Order1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied21
  • ChatGPT3
  • Unidentified3
  • Google AI Overview1

This week’s read-across

28 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-11-03 and 2025-11-09. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (7 of 28). Of the 28 rulings, 1 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 2025-11-03

Courts represented this week

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