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The Order No One Checked

October 23rd, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

On Thursday, a federal appeals court took a Mississippi case away from the judge who had been handling it, after concluding that his rulings were marred by errors produced with artificial intelligence. The case is about a 2025 state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools and universities. Teachers, professors, students and the Mississippi Association of Educators sued, and in the summer of 2025 Judge Henry Wingate blocked the law. His first order named people who were not part of the lawsuit, pointed to statements that did not exist in the case file and misquoted the law itself. Wingate later said a law clerk had used Perplexity, a chatbot that searches the web and writes answers, as a “foundational drafting assistant,” and that a draft was filed before anyone in his office had checked it.

A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals canceled the later order that kept the law on hold and sent the case to a different judge. Judge Jerry Smith, who wrote the decision, pointed to the AI mistakes and the errors of law in Wingate’s rulings. The state had argued that an invented case citation survived even in the corrected version. The appeals court did not decide whether the law itself is constitutional. That question now goes to a new judge, and while it is argued again, the ban is no longer blocked in Mississippi’s schools and colleges.

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La orden que nadie revisó

Octubre 23, 2026 | Por R10

El jueves, un tribunal federal de apelaciones le quitó un caso de Mississippi al juez que lo llevaba, tras concluir que sus resoluciones estaban plagadas de errores producidos con inteligencia artificial. El caso gira en torno a una ley estatal de 2025 que prohíbe los programas de diversidad, equidad e inclusión en escuelas y universidades públicas. Docentes, profesores universitarios, estudiantes y la Mississippi Association of Educators demandaron, y en el verano de 2025 el juez Henry Wingate bloqueó la ley. Su primera orden mencionaba a personas que no formaban parte de la demanda, citaba declaraciones que no existían en el expediente y reproducía mal el texto de la propia ley. Wingate explicó después que un asistente judicial había usado Perplexity, un chatbot que busca en internet y redacta respuestas, como «asistente básico de redacción», y que se presentó un borrador antes de que nadie en su despacho lo revisara.

Un panel de tres jueces del Tribunal de Apelaciones del Quinto Circuito anuló la orden posterior que mantenía la ley en suspenso y envió el caso a otro juez. El juez Jerry Smith, autor de la decisión, señaló los errores de la IA y los fallos jurídicos en las resoluciones de Wingate. El estado había alegado que una cita de un caso inventado seguía presente incluso en la versión corregida. El tribunal no decidió si la ley es constitucional. Esa cuestión pasa ahora a un nuevo juez y, mientras se vuelve a discutir, la prohibición ya no está bloqueada en las escuelas y universidades de Mississippi.

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