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Sanctions — Week of 2026-03-02

32 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-03-02 and 2026-03-08 (ISO week 2026-W10). 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
32
With monetary penalty
6 of 32
Courts
21
ISO week
2026-W10

Week over week: 32 sanctions filed the week of 2026-03-02 vs 30 sanctions the prior week (2026-02-23) — up 2 from the prior week.

Outcomes this week

  • Admonishment3
  • Adverse Costs Order3
  • Order To Show Cause3
  • Warning3
  • Monetary Sanction2
  • Bar Referral1
  • Further Filings Barred Without Prior Authorization1
  • Monetary Sanction; Bar Referral1
  • Monetary Sanction; Cle1
  • Motion To Dismiss Granted; Warning1
  • Plaintiff's Amended Complaint Dismissed With Prejudice1
  • Recommended Granting Terminating Sanctions And Dismissal Of The Case1
  • Reprimand1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied21
  • Unidentified7
  • ChatGPT3
  • ChatGPT; OpenAI1

This week’s read-across

32 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-03-02 and 2026-03-08. The most common recorded outcome this week was Admonishment (3 of 32). Of the 32 rulings, 6 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 2026-03-02

Courts represented this week

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