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Mississippi · federal district court · 2026

Lewis v. Entergy Mississippi, LLC

District Court, S.D. Mississippi, 6 August 2026. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

Case record · S.D. Miss.

  1. Court. District Court, S.D. MississippiCOURT
  2. Level. federal district courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 6 August 2026DATED
  4. Docket. No. 3:25-cv-00323DOCKET
  5. Judge. Henry Travillion WingateJUDGE
  6. Documents. one document, 3 passages quoted belowON FILE
  7. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Docket entry 35, 6 August 2026 · source · PDF · 2 pages

Docket text. ORDER re 22 Order to Show Cause. Signed by Magistrate Judge Andrew S. Harris on August 6, 2026. (BE)

CIVIL ACTION NO. 3:25-CV-323-HTW-ASH ENTERGY MISSISSIPPI, LLC DEFENDANT ORDER This matter is before the Court to take up the September 3, 2025 Order to Show Cause directing Plaintiff’s former counsel, Jane Watson, to show cause why she should not be sanctioned for submitting a brief containing hallucinated legal citations. Watson timely responded, conceded the issues, and stated that although she was “unable to demonstrate good cause for [her] insufficient review of and submission of AI generated output to this Court, [she] humbly ask[s] the Court for forgiveness and mercy.” Decl.

[23-1] at 9. Around this same time, United States District Judge Sharion Aycock also directed Watson to appear at a hearing and show cause why she should not be sanctioned for apparent hallucinated citations. Billups v.

The Court has reviewed and takes judicial notice of the transcript from the show-cause hearing in Billups as well as Judge Aycock’s order imposing sanctions. In this case, Watson did not submit the same brief (or the same hallucinated citations) that gave rise to Judge Aycock’s sanctions order. But Watson was engaged in a similar course of conduct, and that course of conduct came to light in multiple cases around the same time.

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