⚖ SanctionedForAI
One snarky, funny video per real AI-sanctions case. Every episode is built on the primary court documents, which are linked in every description and shown on screen. Lawyers used AI, the AI made things up, and the courts noticed. Lucy Hatchett reads the wreckage so you do not have to.
Latest episode · EP18 · October 30, 2026
Episodes
"The Mistake Will Not Recur": Two Citations Later, It Did
An Alabama lawyer promised the state supreme court, in a footnote, that the mistake would not recur. The second and third citations after that promise were to cases that do not exist. The court dismissed the appeal as a sanction and imposed $17,200 in fees and costs, double costs, a filing restriction, and a bar referral.
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3 Lawyers Sanctioned for 5 Fake AI Citations
A federal court in Alabama publicly reprimanded and disqualified three lawyers after five fabricated AI citations reached two discovery motions. One used a chatbot and never checked. One signed after checking grammar and typos only. One supervised without reviewing the authorities at all.
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Fined $10,000 for 15 Fake Citations and 9 Fake Quotes
An Oregon lawyer's brief cited at least 15 cases that don't exist and 9 quotations from nowhere. The court already had a price list, $500 per fake case and $1,000 per fake quote. The math came to $16,500. The court capped it at $10,000.
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$1,500 for Every Fake Citation
An Illinois appellate lawyer quoted a statute that doesn't say what he claimed, cited one case that doesn't exist, and misdescribed five real ones. The court's price: $1,500 per false citation, $15,000 in all, and a referral to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
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Name the Source
Two lawyers let unlicensed brief writers pick the authority in their appeal, told the court three times AI was not used, then conceded it was possible. The Ninth Circuit suspended both, and every filing from their firm must swear whether AI helped, for two years.
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The Price List
An Oregon federal court priced fake citations at $500 a case and $1,000 a quote, then dismissed the family's case with prejudice when the correction turned out to be a coverup. Fines and fees came to $110,204.38.
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The Phantom Draft
A lawyer filed twenty pages in under five hours, half the citations wrong, then claimed a better draft existed that nobody has ever seen. The court revoked his permission to practice in the case and capped his firm's fees.
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Every Lawyer in the Case Got Sanctioned (Ep 11)
Both sides filed fake AI citations, and a federal judge sanctioned every lawyer in the case. All four lawyers were removed, fined, and referred to their state bars.
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His Co-Counsel Sent an AI Brief. He Filed It Without Reading.
Two law firms sanctioned $31,100 after filing a brief built on an AI-generated outline nobody checked. The special master called it a collective debacle.
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Fake AI Cases Ended Up in a Judge's Order
A prosecutor drafted a judge's order with AI. Nine citations were fake or misstated, the judge signed it, and Georgia's highest court suspended her for six months.
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ChatSOC Invented a Case. The Lawyer Paid for It.
ChatSOC, the AI chatbot built into Sullivan on Comp, invented a case a California workers' comp lawyer filed in court. The WCAB sanctioned him $1,000.
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California SB 574: "The Statute Catches Up"
Governor Newsom signed SB 574, the first statute written specifically for lawyers using generative AI. Lucy reads what it actually requires, and what it left undefined.
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Lawyer Admits Filing Fake AI Cases, Still Sanctioned
He admitted every word was AI-generated. The court sanctioned him anyway. The hallucination mea culpa.
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Lawyer Filed 21 Fake AI Quotes Without Reading Brief
Twenty-one AI-invented quotes filed without reading the brief. The court noticed.
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Sixth Circuit Sanctions Lawyer for 20+ Fake AI Cases
The Sixth Circuit sanctioned a lawyer for 20+ invented cases. The defiance tax.
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Lawyer Fined Twice for Fake AI Cases in Court
Fined $2,500, then $5,000 plus ethics school. The repeat offender.
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Lawyer Sanctioned for Deleting ChatGPT Evidence
He deleted the ChatGPT evidence. The court assumed the worst.
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Lawyer Sanctioned for Fake AI Cases in Murder Appeal
A murder appeal built on AI-invented testimony and fake case law. Where it all started.
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The format
One case, one video
Each episode takes a single real sanctions decision, walks through what the lawyer did with the AI tool, what rule they broke, and what the court did about it. Then it lands the lesson: how the whole thing could have been avoided. The tone is dry and amused, never angry. The snark targets the conduct, never the person.
Documents, not gossip
Every claim in every episode traces to a primary court document. Opinions, orders, and sanctions decisions are linked in the video description and screenshotted in the video itself. If a case is not yet final or a detail is unconfirmed, the episode says so on screen.
Release cadence
Saturday interview series
Once a week, Alex sits down on camera with the sanctioned lawyers themselves. The point is the same as the case episodes: what happened, what it cost, and what other lawyers should learn from it.
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