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Sanctions — Week of 2025-11-24

28 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2025-11-24 and 2025-11-30 (ISO week 2025-W48). 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
24
ISO week
2025-W48

Outcomes this week

  • Warning5
  • Admonishment; Motion Stricken With Prejudice1
  • Adverse Costs Order1
  • Attorney Disqualified; Bar Referral1
  • Costs Order; Bar Referrals1
  • Costs Order; Cle Order; Order To File Order In Any Future Filing; Bar Referral1
  • Currently Pending Appeal1
  • Non-lawyer Trustee Barred From Proceeding Pro Se1
  • Order To Include A Footnote Reading 'located Through Ai; Checked' For Each Future Citation1
  • Plaintiff Cautioned To Disclose And Verify Any Ai Use1
  • Plaintiff's Appellate Brief Stricken And Appeal Dismissed1
  • Reprimand1
  • Show Cause Order1
  • Struck Filing; Order For Future Filings To Include Certificate; Required Contact With The Federal Pro Se Clinic1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied19
  • Unidentified7
  • ChatGPT1
  • CourtAid; ChatGPT1

This week’s read-across

28 rulings landed on the docket between 2025-11-24 and 2025-11-30. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (5 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 2025-11-24

Courts represented this week

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