Sanctions — Week of 2026-03-09

33 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-03-09 and 2026-03-15 (ISO week 2026-W11). 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: 33
With monetary penalty: 5 of 33
Courts: 22
ISO week: 2026-W11

Week over week: 33 sanctions filed the week of 2026-03-09 vs 32 sanctions the prior week (2026-03-02) — up 1 from the prior week.

Outcomes this week

Warning9
Admonishment2
Bar Referral2
Adverse Costs Order; Monetary Sanction; Potential Disciplinary Proceedings1
Ai Misuse As Aggravating Factor For Awarding Costs1
Application Dismissed.1
Brief Struck1
Brief Struck, Warning1
Dismissed1
Formal Reprimand; Monetary Fine1
Monetary Sanction1
No Strike For Abuse Of Process1
Order To Attach Copies Of Cited Authorities Affirmed1
Order To Show Cause1
Order To Show Cause Satisfied; Court Declined To Impose Rule 11 Sanctions.1
Partial Strike-out, Summary Judgment For The Defendants1
Public Admonishment1
Reprimand And Order To Pay State Bar Costs And Expenses Of $1,200.1
Warning (both Parties)1

AI tool implicated

Implied29
Unidentified2
Eve.legal1
Protégé (LexisNexis)1

This week’s read-across

33 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-03-09 and 2026-03-15. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (9 of 33). Of the 33 rulings, 5 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.

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