1 AI-hallucination sanction decided between 2026-08-31 and 2026-09-06 (ISO week 2026-W36). 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 over week: 1 sanction filed the week of 2026-08-31 vs 23 sanctions the prior week (2026-08-24) — down 22 from the prior week.
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.
Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii · Decided 2026-08-31 · Arguments supported by nonexistent authority were deemed waived; court declined to impose sanctions in this criminal direct appeal though noted sanctions were available under appellate rules. · AI tool: Implied.
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