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Sanctions — Week of 2026-02-02

31 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-02-02 and 2026-02-08 (ISO week 2026-W06). 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
31
With monetary penalty
2 of 31
Courts
23
ISO week
2026-W06

Week over week: 31 sanctions filed the week of 2026-02-02 vs 28 sanctions the prior week (2026-01-26) — up 3 from the prior week.

Outcomes this week

  • Warning7
  • Bar Referral1
  • Brief Struck, Monetary Sanction, Firm Compliance1
  • Brief Struck; Default Judgment1
  • Case Dismissed Without Prejudice1
  • Cle1
  • Filing Restriction1
  • Misuse Of Ai Potentially Factored Into Costs1
  • Monetary Sanction, Bar Referral, Adverse Costs Order1
  • Order To Show Cause1
  • Related Issues Waived On Appeal1
  • Report To Office Of Professional Conduct And Counsel Dismissal1
  • Required Meet-and-confer For Ai-use Disputes1
  • Show Cause Order1
  • Show Cause Order; Order To Certify Review Of Citations1
  • Struck Filings; Warning1
  • Submission Withdrawn1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied19
  • Unidentified8
  • ChatGPT1
  • ChatGPT, Claude1
  • Copilot1
  • NotebookLM; vLex; Paxton AI1

This week’s read-across

31 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-02-02 and 2026-02-08. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (7 of 31). Of the 31 rulings, 2 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 2026-02-02

Courts represented this week

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