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Federal judge kicked off 'botch job' anti-DEI case after stunning appeals court rebuke

Federal judge kicked off 'botch job' anti-DEI case after stunning appeals court rebuke

A federal judge was removed from a challenge to Mississippi's anti-DEI law after the Fifth Circuit blasted his handling of the case as a "botch job," pointing to orders riddled with factual errors, an apparent AI-hallucinated case citation and faulty applications of Supreme Court precedent.In an opinion penned by Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan appointee, the appeals court vacated Reagan-appointed Judge Henry Wingate's preliminary injunction blocking the law and ordered the case reassigned to a different judge — an "extraordinary" and "rarely invoked" move."This district judge carelessly exercised...

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