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Sanctions — Week of 2026-02-09

41 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-02-09 and 2026-02-15 (ISO week 2026-W07). 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
41
With monetary penalty
9 of 41
Courts
23
ISO week
2026-W07

Week over week: 41 sanctions filed the week of 2026-02-09 vs 31 sanctions the prior week (2026-02-02) — up 10 from the prior week.

Outcomes this week

  • Warning10
  • Order To Show Cause6
  • Monetary Sanction4
  • Admonishment3
  • Monetary Sanction; Bar Referral2
  • Adverse Costs Order; Bar Referral1
  • Arguments Deemed Waived1
  • Brief Partly Struck; Warning1
  • Magistrate Recommended Monetary Sanction And Bar Referral1
  • Obligation To Share Decision With Firm1
  • Order For Security For Costs1
  • Respondent Publicly Censured1
  • Temeridad Declaration; Monetary Fine; Bar Referral1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied31
  • Unidentified6
  • ChatGPT3
  • Westlaw CoCounsel1

This week’s read-across

41 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-02-09 and 2026-02-15. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (10 of 41). Of the 41 rulings, 9 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 2026-02-09

Courts represented this week

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