1 verbatim requirement on filing.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — At-filing requirement only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • In each civil case, the standing civil case management order (attached hereto as Appendix A) shall be signed by the plaintiff and filed in the court file along with the complaint. The plaintiff shall cause the standing order to be served, along with the complaint, on each named defendant. The Clerk shall not accept a civil case for filing without submission of the signed standing order.
In each civil case, the standing civil case management order (attached hereto as Appendix A) shall be signed by the plaintiff and filed in the court file along with the complaint. The plaintiff shall cause the standing order to be served, along with the complaint, on each named defendant. The Clerk shall not accept a civil case for filing without submission of the signed standing order.
Source sha256: d98a958cd8ed7e324482d6b8bdfe03c25efa2cd38f58649a122e570a003f00ea. Corpus categories: At-filing requirement. Operative status as recorded: CURRENT_DIRECTORY_CURRENT_VERSION_COMPANION. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Judge Costello's AI section simply restates amended Rule 2.515(d)(2) — the post-AOSC26-12 statewide standard — a compliance model, not a local mandate: signers certify cited authorities exist and are accurately cited, with the rule's own sanctions.
The strongest in-the-wild confirmation of the 2026 statewide AI rule: Judge Bantner's page expressly states his prior AI requirements are REMOVED because of the May 28, 2026 amendment of Rule 2.515 — signing a filing now itself certifies the authorities exist and are accurately cited.