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Palm Beach County's local AI order — the most detailed AI mandate any Florida circuit adopted — required face-of-filing disclosure, a scripted certification naming the AI program used, and identification of the specific tool, backed by sanctions up to Florida Bar referral. Chief Judge Glenn D. Kelley VACATED it in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 at 12:01 a.m. by AO 2.109-5/26. It imposes no obligation today.
HISTORICAL — VACATED IN ITS ENTIRETY. This order has no force. It is preserved because several division pages still republish or link it (see the holdover tracker). Operative content while in force (Apr. 10 – Jun. 15, 2026), verified verbatim from the signed PDF: §1 applied to attorneys and self-represented litigants before the Circuit and County Courts of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, and let any party — or the court sua sponte — raise a disclosure deficiency by motion. §2(a) 'Any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any generative artificial intelligence tool in the preparation of a pleading, motion, memorandum, response, proposed order or other court document, must disclose such use on the face of the filing.' §2(b) defined generative AI and listed disclosable uses — legal research, drafting documents or portions of documents, translating and interpreting language, AI note taking, and creation of images, audio or video — naming as examples 'Harvey AI; Lexis+AI; AI.Law; Co-Counsel by Thomson Reuters; Westlaw drafting assistant; ChatGPT by OpenAI; Google Gemini; Microsoft Copilot; Claude AI.' §2(c) exempted 'Traditional AI' (rule-based search, classification, spelling and grammar checks; e.g. Westlaw Precision, LexisNexis, Justia, FindLaw, Cornell LII, Florida Law Weekly). §3 required this certification at the conclusion of the filing or immediately above the signature block: 'Generative artificial intelligence (name of generative AI program used) was used in the preparation of this filing. The undersigned certifies that all factual assertions, legal authority, and citations have been independently reviewed and verified for accuracy and accepts full responsibility for the contents of this filing.' §4 preserved candor duties and deemed all AI-generated content the work product of the filing party. §5 prohibited fictitious, fabricated or hallucinated authority, reliance on AI citations without independent verification, misrepresenting AI content as independently researched authority, and failure to disclose; it also subjected AI note-taking and recording in the courtroom to the presiding judge's authority and barred AI notes from being treated as an official record. §6 authorized sanctions including striking the filing, denial of relief, monetary sanctions, contempt, and referral to The Florida Bar. Signed April 10, 2026 by Chief Judge Glenn D. Kelley.
Any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any generative artificial intelligence tool in the preparation of a pleading, motion, memorandum, response, proposed order or other court document, must disclose such use on the face of the filing.
Reviewer note: Binary fetched + sha256-hashed b272f0c83fcaad… by BenchPath 2026-07-22 and all 3 pages transcribed from page images (the research pass could not retain the binary and captured only a 7-word excerpt). Full operative text now in custody.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.