JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is asking a federal judge to return the state’s lawsuit against Entergy Mississippi to Hinds County Chancery Court.
Hood filed suit against the power company December 2008, claiming it overcharged customers by buying electricity from affiliates at a higher rate than on the open market, then passing the inflated costs along to consumers.
Entergy has denied the allegations.
Company officials say regulatory agencies are the proper groups to decide the issue. Entergy requested the move of the state’s lawsuit from state court to federal court.
In 2012, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate denied Hood’s motion to have the case heard in state court. Wingate ruled federal court was the proper forum for the lawsuit.
Hood wants Wingate to send the case back to Hinds County.
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