C.D. Cal.: Standing Order for Civil Cases Assigned to Judge Anne Hwang

What the order requires

Section E.5 (“Artificial Intelligence”) of the standing order dated September 25, 2026 reads: “Any party who uses generative artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT, Harvey, CoCounsel, or Claude) to generate any portion of a brief, pleading, or other filing must review the source material and verify that the artificially generated content is accurate and complies with the filer’s Rule 11 obligations.” The duty is verification, tied expressly to Rule 11. Nothing in the current order requires a party to disclose that generative AI was used.

Revision history

The September 3, 2025 version of this order carried the C.D. Cal. shared-template provision that Judge Blumenfeld’s and Judge Slaughter’s orders still contain as of 2026-09-27: a party using generative AI “must attach to the filing a separate declaration disclosing the use of artificial intelligence and certifying that the filer has reviewed the source material and verified that the artificially generated content is accurate and complies with the filer’s Rule 11 obligations.” The September 25, 2026 reissue dropped the declaration and replaced “Google Bard” with “Claude” in the list of examples. Judge Hwang’s order has therefore diverged from the shared template. Practitioners with matters before several C.D. Cal. judges should not assume the disclosure requirement is uniform across the district; check each judge’s current standing order at filing time.

Primary source

Standing Order for Civil Cases Assigned to Judge Anne Hwang, dated September 25, 2026, apps.cacd.uscourts.gov. The court serves judges’ orders through its Judges’ Procedures and Schedules application, which assigns a new file identifier each time chambers reissues a document.