Incident Tracker / United States (federal)
Withers v. City of Aberdeen
·United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi·US-FEDSuspensionprovisional
On 2026-06-08, in Withers v. City of Aberdeen, the Northern District of Mississippi revoked pro hac vice admission, disqualified resident counsel, fined counsel $8,000, and referred the matter to bar authorities. Counsel filed opposition papers using quotations that did not appear in the cited source, nonexistent or hallucinated authorities, and authorities used for propositions they did not support.
- Court
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
- Date
- 2026-06-08
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- First Drafts
- Conduct
- Four attorneys were responsible for filings containing hallucinatory citations. Two attorneys admitted using AI tools without verifying output, and all counsel had signed filings with hallucinated citations.
- Outcome
- Suspension
- Penalty
- US$8,000
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-07
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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Withers v. City of Aberdeen”, safelegalai.com/tracker/withers-v-city-of-aberdeen (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.