Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen
Date: 2025-11-05
Affected: Ai Research Tool Developers, First Drafts, Kathleen M. Wilson, Kathryn Y. Williams, Large Language Model Developers, Lawyers, Mark Mcclinton, Shauncey Hunter Ridgeway
Attack vector: hallucination
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1533: Four Lawyers Reportedly Sanctioned After Purportedly AI-Related Hallucinated Citations Appeared in Withers v. City of Aberdeen. Alleged deployer/developer: Ai Research Tool Developers, First Drafts, Kathleen M. Wilson, Kathryn Y. Williams, Large Language Model Developers, Lawyers, Mark Mcclinton, Shauncey Hunter Ridgeway. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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