Evans v. Robertson (4)
E.D. Michigan · Decided 2026-07-21 · Briefs (both sides) struck · AI tool: Implied.
Sanctions — Week of 2026-07-20
1 AI-hallucination sanction decided between 2026-07-20 and 2026-07-26 (ISO week 2026-W30). 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
- 1
- With monetary penalty
- 0 of 1
- Courts
- 1
- ISO week
- 2026-W30
Outcomes this week
- Briefs (both Sides) Struck1
AI tool implicated
- Implied1
This week’s read-across
One AI-hallucination ruling landed on the docket this week. Small-N weeks are the norm — the pattern is set by the trailing 12-week average, not by any individual week’s count.
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 2026-07-20
Courts represented this week
Nearby weeks
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