U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

The court’s words

“Any attorney or self-represented litigant who signs a pleading, written motion, or other paper submitted to the Court will be held responsible for the contents of that filing under Rule 11, regardless of whether generative artificial intelligence drafted any portion of that filing.”

Quoted from the court’s own document, read on 26 September 2026. Read it at the source.

What it asks of the person who signs

• No certificate of its own

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

Applies to: All filings.

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.

• Check a filing

  Free, without an account.

• Every court on the list

  50 rules and orders, each quoted from the court’s own document.