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Shauncey Hunter Ridgeway

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 15331 Report
Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

2025-11-05

In Withers v. City of Aberdeen, a federal judge in Mississippi reportedly sanctioned four lawyers after filings from both sides contained purportedly hallucinated legal citations linked to unverified AI use. The court said Kathleen Wilson used First Drafts to draft a filing and Kathryn Williams used an AI legal-research tool; all four attorneys were removed from the case and fined.

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Mark McClinton

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Lawyers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Kathryn Y. Williams

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Kathleen M. Wilson

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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First Drafts

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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AI legal research tool developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Tom Withers III

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Judicial integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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City of Aberdeen, Mississippi

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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AI legal research tools

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1533
    1 Report

    Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen

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