United States District Court Issues order regarding the use of A.I.

The United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina recently issued a memo and order regulating the use of A.I. in fillings, briefs, and memorandums before the court. The court is, “concerned regarding whether factual and legal citations or references in court filings have been properly vetted by counsel…”  As such, the court has required that all attorneys and pro se filers must file a certification, stating:

• No artificial intelligence was employed in doing the research for the preparation of this document, with the exception of such artificial intelligence embedded in the standard online legal research sources Westlaw, Lexis, FastCase and Bloomberg.
• Every statement and every citation to an authority contained in this document has been checked by an attorney in this case and /or paralegal working at his/her discretion (or the party making the filing if acting pro se) at to the accuracy of the proposition for which it is offered, and the citation to authority provided.

7 District judges all signed the order together. The judges included Chief U.S. District Judge, Martin Reidinger, U.S. District Court Judge Frank D. Whitney, U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth D. Bell, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., Senior U.S. District Judge Graham C. Mullen, and Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Voorhees. This is an ongoing matter and will be updated further as more information becomes available.