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Court rules on AI in filings

All California courts.

Code Civ. Proc. § 128.7(b)(2), as amended by SB 574 (Stats. 2026, ch. 858).

Enacted, not yet in force Approved 30 September 2026; in force from 1 January 2027 (a statute enacted at the 2026 regular session takes effect on 1 January 2027 (Cal. Const., art. IV, § 8(c)); the act names no other date); read on 5 November 2026.

  • Say that generative AI was used
  • No certificate of its own

The court’s words

“(2) (A) A brief, pleading, motion, or any other paper filed in any court shall not contain any citations that an attorney responsible for submitting the pleading has not personally verified, including any citation provided by generative artificial intelligence.”

Quoted from the court’s own document, read on 5 November 2026. Read it at the source.

Bus. & Prof. Code § 6068.1(a)(3), added by the same act: “(B) Take reasonable steps to do both of the following: (i) Verify the accuracy of generative artificial intelligence outputs, including, but not limited to, the accuracy of all case and statutory citations. (ii) Correct any erroneous or hallucinated output in any material used by the attorney. (C) Disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence to the court for all documents submitted to the court” Source.

The Legislature's site serves the chaptered text to a browser only; it was read in one on 5 November 2026 and the words checked against that reading.

What it asks of the person who signs

  • Say that generative AI was used

    or, where the order asks it, that it was not.

  • No certificate of its own

    the duty to verify every citation, restated; the signature carries it.

Applies to: Every brief, pleading, motion or other paper filed in any California court, from 1 January 2027. Where it goes: Made by presenting the paper: under § 128.7 it may not contain a citation the responsible attorney has not personally verified, and § 6068.1 asks that the use of generative AI be disclosed to the court. Neither prescribes words.

The statement, if one is called for

No words are prescribed. A statement can be put together on the check page from parts: whether generative AI was used, that every authority cited exists and is accurately cited, and how the citations were checked.

On the check page Loupe drafts the statement for this court from the parts you tick, for you to read and sign: what it says is your choice and your responsibility. The order in force on the day is what counts; read it at the source before relying on this page.

Check the filing first

Paste the brief or drop the file, and Loupe looks up every citation in the published record: whether the case exists, whether it is the case the filing names, whether the pin cite falls inside the opinion; statutes, regulations, court rules and links too. It doesn’t generate anything, and what it can’t settle it marks “not verified”, never clean.