Sixth Circuit Sanctioned Lawyers in Whiting v. City of Athens over Alleged Fake Appellate Citations in Briefs Reportedly Bearing Hallmarks of Hallucinations
Date: 2026-03-13
Affected: Generative Ai Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Russ Egli, Van Irion
Attack vector: hallucination
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1447: Sixth Circuit Sanctioned Lawyers in Whiting v. City of Athens over Alleged Fake Appellate Citations in Briefs Reportedly Bearing Hallmarks of Hallucinations. Alleged deployer/developer: Generative Ai Developers, Large Language Model Developers, Russ Egli, Van Irion. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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