3rd Circuit AI rules: no local AI disclosure or certification requirement found · BenchPath

3rd Circuit AI rules: no local AI disclosure or certification requirement found

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 22, 2026Administrative OrdersFla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.515(d)(2) (SC2026-0673); Fla. Sup. Ct. Admin. Order AOSC26-12 (eff. June 15, 2026). No 3rd Circuit local AI order located.

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

No administrative order in the Third Judicial Circuit imposes an AI disclosure, certification or tool-identification duty. Filers in the seven counties are governed by the statewide rule alone.

Applies to

All seven counties. SCOPE OF THIS FINDING, stated precisely: BenchPath fetched and sha256-hashed all 464 live media PDFs on 2026-07-22 and searched the 285 that carry a machine-readable text layer for artificial intelligence, word-bounded AI, generative, ChatGPT, large language model, machine learning, hallucinat, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Lexis+AI and Co-Counsel — zero hits (the three Co-Counsel matches are the legal term in the media policy and attorney-registry applications). 179 documents are image-only scans that NO keyword search can reach. Of those 179, only ten carry filenames implying 2023 or later — the window in which any AI order would fall — and none is an AI order by title (Professionalism Panel orders, General Assignment orders, a Court Reporting Plan, and a traffic hearing officer appointment). The remaining image-only documents date from 1972–2022. This is a searched negative with a declared unread remainder, not an exhaustive one.

Requirement

BenchPath found no local AI requirement in the Third Judicial Circuit. What governs is statewide: Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.515(d)(2) (SC2026-0673) makes every signer represent that cited authorities exist and are accurately cited, and AOSC26-12 bars circuits and judges from imposing separate AI requirements through local administrative orders, court policies or judicial practices and procedures. AI-assisted drafting is not prohibited; the signer bears responsibility for verifying every citation.

Source of truth

Courts may not impose such requirements - whether through local administrative orders, court policies, judicial practices and procedures, or other means. [AOSC26-12]

Official source: 3rd Circuit — Administrative & General Assignment Orders
Source health: Healthy · checked September 4, 2026
Effective date: June 15, 2026
Last verified: July 22, 2026BenchPath arbitration 2026-07-22 — sweep over 285 text-extractable PDFs of 464 fetched; 179 image-only documents declared unread and characterised by date and title.

Reviewer note: | 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 Third Circuit's negative baseline for the AI tracker: no local AI requirement found; the statewide rule controls.

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 3rd Circuit — Administrative & General Assignment Orders. Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 3rd Circuit — Administrative & General Assignment Orders. Review before republishing dependent rules.