Skip to main content
Citation Safe

Sanctions — Week of 2026-06-29

30 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-06-29 and 2026-07-05 (ISO week 2026-W27). 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
30
With monetary penalty
3 of 30
Courts
19
ISO week
2026-W27

Week over week: 30 sanctions filed the week of 2026-06-29 vs 27 sanctions the prior week (2026-06-22) — up 3 from the prior week.

Outcomes this week

  • Warning8
  • Admonishment4
  • Adverse Costs Order2
  • Order To Show Cause2
  • Appeal Dismissed1
  • Appeal Dismissed; Court Disallowed Reliance On The Ai-generated Authorities And The Appellant Resiled From Those Submissions; No Professional Sanction Imposed1
  • Brief Struck1
  • Monetary Sanction; Bar Referral (upl)1
  • Nclt And Nclat Judgments Set Aside1
  • No Sanction Imposed1
  • No Sanctions1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied23
  • Unidentified7

This week’s read-across

30 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-06-29 and 2026-07-05. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (8 of 30). Of the 30 rulings, 3 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 2026-06-29

Courts represented this week

Nearby weeks

← Prev: 2026-W26 (27)Next: 2026-W28 (30) →

Get the Sanctions Alert — a new issue every time a ruling lands.

Free double-opt-in newsletter. Case, sanction, fake cites, lesson. No promotional content.

Subscribe (free) →Verify your own brief
All weekly digestsFull sanctions databaseVerify your own brief →

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