The Cooke County Court at Law's artificial-intelligence standing order: a self-represented litigant or attorney who uses AI must incorporate and certify a certificate within each AI-generated pleading, and recording and AI use are banned in and near the courtroom and court offices.
Applies in every pending or newly filed case in the Cooke County Court at Law; the certificate is incorporated within each AI-generated pleading.
This Standing Order applies to every pending or hereafter filed case in the Cooke County Court at Law. All self-represented litigants and attorneys who utilize any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in connection with a case shall, before using any AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, incorporate and certify using the form hereinbelow as a certi
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the county-site document (4 pp; p. 1 vision lane, pp. 2-4 text layer, read in full). Court-specific CCL; judge-joined to Townsend. Not registered on the TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-06 (own-site only; Rockwall precedent). Feeds /texas/ai-rules. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 e1ccb539dc9c..., 4 pages) replaces the earlier 1,287-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (3 substantive difference(s), 5 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (6/6) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 e1ccb539dc9c..., 4 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
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