Ellington

Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood lodged another lawsuit against Entergy Mississippi on Tuesday. The attorney general already had a lawsuit against the energy provider in Hinds County Chancery Court to force it to surrender company information, but Hood abandoned that suit in order to hit Entergy with a new suit alleging incidents of deceptive trade practices, anti-trust behavior, accounting manipulation and unlawful enrichment, among other charges.

"We already have the documents (proving our case), and we know the evidence is there, so we feel very comfortable filing this suit," Hood told reporters at a Dec. 2 press conference.

Hood said he already had the information making a good case from an Entergy court fight in Louisiana, but said that information only goes up to the year 2000. He said he wants the court to compel Entergy to release information following 2000.

Entergy still claims only the Mississippi Public Service Commission has authority to squeeze the company for that information, even though the PSC released a November resolution demanding Entergy recognize Hood as the PSC's attorney.