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‘A Botch Job’: Federal Appeals Court Reverses Injunction, Reassigns Anti-DEI Case
The panel said the district court relied on hallucinated facts and flawed analysis and ordered the case reassigned on remand.
- On Thursday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an injunction against Mississippi's DEI ban, reassigning the case to a new judge after District Judge Henry Wingate issued rulings containing multiple artificial intelligence hallucinations.
- Judge Wingate's July 2025 temporary restraining order against House Bill 1193 included fake plaintiffs and non-existent legal cases; Wingate later admitted a law clerk used AI to draft the order, which was docketed by mistake.
- Criticizing the ruling as a "botch job," Circuit Judge Jerry Smith noted that even the corrected order cited a non-existent case, proving AI-generated errors persisted in the legal documents.
- Citing Wingate's failure to apply the Supreme Court's Moody v. NetChoice framework, the panel ordered the case to a new judge, emphasizing that a law's unconstitutional applications must "substantially outweigh" its constitutional ones.
- Plaintiffs' attorney Robert McDuff noted the ruling clarifies that public school teachers and students retain rights to discuss race, sex, and civil rights, a point central to future proceedings.
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Federal judge kicked off 'botch job' anti-DEI case after stunning appeals court rebuke – Democratic Accent
A federal judge was removed from a challenge to Mississippi’s anti-DEI law after the Fifth... The post Federal judge kicked off ‘botch job’ anti-DEI case after stunning appeals court rebuke appeared first on Democratic Accent .
"The District Court—or Perhaps, Being Charitable, Its AI Agent—Ignored and Manipulated Governing Law, Apparently to Satisfy a Policy Agenda"
A short excerpt from the long opinion in Jackson Fed. of Teachers v. Fitch, decided yesterday by Fifth Circuit Judge…
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