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Sanctions — Week of 2026-07-06

30 AI-hallucination sanctions decided between 2026-07-06 and 2026-07-12 (ISO week 2026-W28). 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
2 of 30
Courts
18
ISO week
2026-W28

Week over week: 30 sanctions filed the week of 2026-07-06 vs 30 sanctions the prior week (2026-06-29) — unchanged week over week.

Outcomes this week

  • Warning8
  • Admonishment2
  • Bar Referral2
  • Both Parties Filed Notices Of Errata1
  • Brief Partly Struck; Adverse Costs Order; Bar Referral1
  • Evidence Rejected1
  • Monetary Sanction1
  • Motion For Sanctions Denied1
  • Motion Struck; Bar Referral1
  • Order To Show Cause1
  • The Court Identified The Cited Authority As Non-existent And Treated It As Unreliable; No Professional Sanction Or Monetary Penalty Was Imposed Related To The Fabricated Citation.1
  • Tribunal Criticised The Ai-assisted Submissions For Legal Inaccuracy And Misunderstanding Of Authorities, Indicated It Would Disregard Irrelevant Or Incorrect Material; No Professional Sanction Imposed.1
  • Warning; Case Dismissed With Prejudice1

AI tool implicated

  • Implied25
  • Unidentified5

This week’s read-across

30 rulings landed on the docket between 2026-07-06 and 2026-07-12. The most common recorded outcome this week was Warning (8 of 30). Of the 30 rulings, 2 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 2026-07-06

Courts represented this week

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