AI incident #1533 ·
Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen
What happened
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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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Shauncey Hunter Ridgeway, Mark Mcclinton, Lawyers, Kathryn Y. Williams, Kathleen M. Wilson
- Alleged harmed party
- Tom Withers Iii, Judicial Integrity, Epistemic Integrity, City Of Aberdeen Mississippi
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