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Sanctions — Week of 2025-11-10

26 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-11-10 and 2025-11-16 (ISO week 2025-W46). 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
26
With monetary penalty
4 of 26
Courts
24
ISO week
2025-W46

Outcomes this week

  • Warning5
  • Order To Show Cause2
  • Admonishment1
  • Ai-generated Materials Disregarded; Adverse Costs Order; Order To Correct Filings.1
  • Contempt Finding; Apology And Publication Of Judgment1
  • Expert Fees Reduced To Naught1
  • Filing Struck; Monetary Sanction1
  • Fine And Costs Order1
  • Monetary Sanction (2,000 Usd); Adverse Costs Order1
  • Order To File Order In All Pending Vermont Superior Court Cases Where Counsel Appears1
  • Respondent Publicly Censured1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied18
  • Unidentified7
  • ChatGPT1

This week’s read-across

26 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-11-10 and 2025-11-16. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (5 of 26). Of the 26 rulings, 4 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 2025-11-10

Courts represented this week

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