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Standing Order for Civil Cases (generative AI provision), Magistrate Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Magistrate Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes · Illinois

last revised 2026-03-04last verified 2026-09-212 versionscountry page →

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Standing order for civil cases before Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, Northern District of Illinois. The 31 May 2023 revision required parties to disclose generative AI use and name the tool; the current order (PDF dated 4 March 2026) drops that duty, refers counsel to the Illinois Supreme Court AI policy and relies on the Rule 11 certification.

Applies to
lawyers, litigants
Effective
31 May 2023
Current version
Current (Artificial Intelligence section revised) · 04 Mar 2026
Last verified
21 Sept 2026
Official text
www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/_assets/_documents/_forms/_judges/Fuentes/Standi…

What the document requires

  • Artificial Intelligence section (current, p. 17): the Court refers all counsel to the Illinois Supreme Court's policy on artificial intelligence use effective 1 January 2025.
  • The Court expects that no counsel will submit hallucinated authorities and that all counsel will follow Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
  • The pre-existing Rule 11 certification is presumed to be the filer's representation that they themselves have read and analysed all cited authorities and that the filing complies with Rule 11(b)(2).
  • Superseded (31 May 2023 version): parties had to disclose generative AI use in the filing and identify the tool.

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
Current (Artificial Intelligence section revised)current2026-03-04The Artificial Intelligence section (p. 17 of the current PDF, file dated 4 March 2026) no longer requires parties to disclose generative AI use or name the tool. It refers counsel to the Illinois Supreme Court policy on AI effective 1 January 2025, states that the Court expects no hallucinated authorities and Rule 11 compliance, and treats the existing Rule 11 certification as the filer's representation that they have read and analysed every cited authority. Date is the PDF's creation date; the order prints no revision date.official · archive
Original (disclosure required)2023-05-31Version as recorded from the 31 May 2023 revision: any party using a generative AI tool to prepare a filing had to disclose that use and identify the tool.official

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SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Standing Order for Civil Cases (generative AI provision), Magistrate Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes" (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Magistrate Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes, Current (Artificial Intelligence section revised), 2026-03-04), safelegalai.com/regulation/us-federal/us-nd-ill-fuentes-standing-order-genai (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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