AI Citation Sanctions.
Signing a court filing certifies its citations under Rule 11 (and Rule 9011 in bankruptcy), and the duty of candor to the tribunal (MR 3.3) is non-delegable to a machine. The evidence record proves: Drift — measures run-to-run instability, a behaviour upstream of fabricated citations
Reviewed 2026-07-08
What this is.
Use. hallucinated-authority sanctions wave · Rule 11 / 9011 · candor-to-tribunal.
Register. 09 · Compliance controls — one of the 17 registers of the PLANiSPHERE corpus library.
Promise. compliance
AI Citation Sanctions sets the bar an AI output must clear before a tribunal or a client relies on it — reliability, candor, competence. Planisphere supplies the reliability record: a reproducible measurement of the system that produced the output, the thing the rule says you must be able to show.
Answers: How does AI Citation Sanctions treat AI-generated work, and what record supports review?
See it work.
Planisphere measures your tool deployment against AI Citation Sanctions and seals the result into a signed, Merkle-rooted evidence record. The grade recomputes on your own hardware; the model state never crosses the boundary.
What it requires.
Signing a court filing certifies its citations under Rule 11 (and Rule 9011 in bankruptcy), and the duty of candor to the tribunal (MR 3.3) is non-delegable to a machine. A 2023–2026 wave of orders has sanctioned, reprimanded, and disqualified counsel for filing AI-hallucinated authority. The flagship exemplar, Johnson v. Dunn (N.D. Ala. 2025), reprimanded and disqualified three attorneys despite a firmwide AI policy — the policy existed but the verification step failed. The duty is to verify every authority before filing and to size the verification burden to the tool's actual instability.
What the evidence record proves.
- Drift — measures run-to-run instability, a behaviour upstream of fabricated citations
- Coherence — measures internal consistency of the tool's outputs
- Produces a reproducible risk-characterization record of the tool, not of any single brief
- Lets a firm size its verification burden to the measured risk of the tool it relies on
- Sealed and recomputable, so the 'we checked the tool' record is dated and signed
What this does not prove. Planisphere does not check any individual citation, does not replace the lawyer's non-delegable duty to verify every authority, and does not immunize a filing from sanctions. It measures the tool's behaviour; the lawyer verifies the brief. Johnson v. Dunn is cited as a public exemplar, not as legal advice.
Questions this answers.
The record this pin expects.
AI Citation Sanctions asks for an evidence record: Signing a court filing certifies its citations under Rule 11 (and Rule 9011 in bankruptcy), and the duty of candor to the tribunal (MR 3.3) is non-delegable to a machine. Read the related legal AI workflow product context at /law.
ABA Model Rules reg 09 · Rule 1.1 · 1.6 · 3.3 · 5.1–5.3 · Op 512 ABA Formal Op. 512 reg 09 · generative-AI duties · competence · confidentiality · candor · supervision FRE 702 reg 09 · expert testimony · reliability gatekeepingSibling marks. Compliance controls
For each vertical.
AI Citation Sanctions for defense AI workflow
NIST AI RMF · DoW RAI · OMB M-25-21 Open the pageAI Citation Sanctions for clinical AI workflow
HHS §1557 · HIPAA · FDA PCCP Open the pageAI Citation Sanctions for legal AI workflow
FRE 702 · ABA Model Rules Open the pageAI Citation Sanctions for tutor and grader workflow
Title VI · FERPA · §504 / IDEA Open the pageSee the record AI Citation Sanctions asks for.
The console shows the evidence; the docs show the endpoints; the briefing shows what the product does and does not claim.