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Sanctions — Week of 2026-05-25

33 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-05-25 and 2026-05-31 (ISO week 2026-W22). 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
6 of 33
Courts
18
ISO week
2026-W22

Week over week: 33 sanctions filed the week of 2026-05-25 vs 41 sanctions the prior week (2026-05-18) — down 8 from the prior week.

Outcomes this week

  • Warning8
  • Monetary Sanction4
  • Order To Show Cause3
  • Admonishment2
  • Bar Referral2
  • Adverse Costs Order1
  • Barred From Filing Save With Counsel1
  • Judgment Reversed And Remanded1
  • Monetary Fine1
  • Monetary Fine; Bar Referral1
  • Ordered Self-report To The Law Society Of Alberta1
  • Public Reprimand1
  • Tribunal Declarou A Existência De Litigância De Má-fé Em Razão Das Citações Fabricadas, Fixou Multa De 10% Do Valor Da Causa E Determinou Ofício À Oab; Recurso Especial Não Admitido.1
  • Warning, Leave To Refile1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied26
  • Unidentified5
  • ChatGPT1
  • Deepseek1

This week’s read-across

33 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-05-25 and 2026-05-31. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (8 of 33). Of the 33 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 2026-05-25

Courts represented this week

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