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Sanctions — Week of 2026-06-15

20 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-06-15 and 2026-06-21 (ISO week 2026-W25). 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
20
With monetary penalty
1 of 20
Courts
16
ISO week
2026-W25

Week over week: 20 sanctions filed the week of 2026-06-15 vs 35 sanctions the prior week (2026-06-08) — down 15 from the prior week.

Outcomes this week

  • Warning6
  • Admonishment3
  • Bar Referral1
  • Brief Struck; Warning1
  • Briefs Struck; Warning1
  • Case Remanded To Consider Sanctions; Bar Referral1
  • Monetary Sanctions1
  • No Sanction (but Strong Disappointment)1
  • Sanctions Affirmed1
  • Sanctions Hearing1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied12
  • Unidentified7
  • Cetient1

This week’s read-across

20 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-06-15 and 2026-06-21. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (6 of 20). Of the 20 rulings, 1 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 2026-06-15

Courts represented this week

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