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Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.
The Fifth Circuit's current AI order (effective June 15, 2026, 12:01 a.m., the same moment as AOSC26-12) expressly creates NO AI disclosure, certification, or verification requirement beyond statewide law. It strongly cautions independent verification of all AI-assisted content, bars unanonymized confidential data in public AI systems, requires a Disclosure Statement for AI-generated or AI-altered EVIDENCE, and quotes Rule 2.515(d)(2) sanctions.
§2.B: "The Court strongly cautions all persons utilizing artificial intelligence in connection with court filings, legal research, or litigation support to independently verify all factual assertions, quotations, legal authorities, citations, and legal analysis before submission to the Court." §2.D: "Nothing in this Administrative Order shall be construed to create any disclosure, certification, or verification requirement concerning the use of artificial intelligence beyond those imposed by applicable law, court rule, or order of the Florida Supreme Court." §5: "Confidential or sealed information must not be entered into public AI systems without anonymization." §6 prohibits fabricated citations, improper disclosure of confidential information into public AI systems, and AI-altered evidence without disclosure. §7 (AI-generated or AI-altered evidence): "Any such exhibit must include a Disclosure Statement and appropriate foundation." §8 quotes the Rule 2.515(d)(2) sanction paragraph. §10: supersedes A-2026-13 effective June 15, 2026 at 12:01 a.m. Signed by Chief Judge Daniel B. Merritt, Jr. on June 11, 2026. Scope (§1): all filings via the e-portal or otherwise presented to any division in Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion and Sumter counties; applies to attorneys, self-represented litigants, court-appointed professionals and justice partners.
Nothing in this Administrative Order shall be construed to create any disclosure, certification, or verification requirement concerning the use of artificial intelligence beyond those imposed by applicable law, court rule, or order of the Florida Supreme Court.
Reviewer note: Independently fetched + hashed 2026-07-20 (sha256 33e1b4e4…); all four research-pass quotes verified verbatim from page images. Textbook AOSC26-12 compliance: the amendment stripped the disclosure/certification/tool-ID requirements the original imposed. | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. PUBLISHED 2026-09-02 (July-hold adjudication by full text): the current Fifth Circuit AI cautionary order, key provisions verbatim and hash-verified; it belongs on the AI tracker. Verbatim key provisions (verified against hashed PDF) [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.