Fulton Cnty. Sup. Ct. (Ga.): Standing Case Management Order for Civil Cases in Judge Beli…
Hon. Belinda E. Edwards · Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia
Verified October 1, 2026
- Citation
- Standing Case Management Order for Civil Cases in Judge Belinda E. Edwards' Division, Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Courtroom (Fulton County Superior Court)
- Order date
- August 20, 2025
Summary
'All parties should note whether artificial intelligence (AI) was used to prepare or draft a filing in this Court at the end of each filing.'
What does the order require?
- 'All parties should note whether artificial intelligence (AI) was used to prepare or draft a filing in this Court at the end of each filing.'
- Any attorney or pro se litigant who uses AI in any capacity to prepare or draft any filing 'SHALL be aware that if, on review, this Court finds the use of hallucination or fictitious citations to either statute or case law the Court will take appropriate action including but not limited to the striking of pleadings, sanctions, or disciplinary referrals.'
- 'Mistake, lack of technical expertise, or time constraints will not be accepted as good faith excuses for the inclusion of hallucination or fictitious citations.'
- The same paragraph appears in the Amended 2025 order (August 20, 2025) and the 2026 order (February 18, 2026). Applies to civil cases in Judge Edwards' division during the pre-trial phase.
Practice areas: state civil
What the order provides
Judge Belinda E. Edwards’s 2026 Standing Case Management Order for Civil Cases, No. 26-EX-000342 (Fulton Cnty. Super. Ct. Feb. 18, 2026), like her Amended 2025 order, No. 25-EX-001483 (Aug. 20, 2025), has a paragraph headed “Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Courtroom” that addresses filings. It opens: “All parties should note whether artificial intelligence (AI) was used to prepare or draft a filing in this Court at the end of each filing.” The sentence asks for a note at the end of each filing, but it says “should” and prescribes no form of words, so it reads as an expectation rather than a mandatory disclosure.
The rest of the paragraph is mandatory in tone. Any attorney or pro se litigant who uses AI in any capacity to prepare or draft a filing “SHALL be aware” that, if the Court finds hallucinated or fictitious citations to statute or case law, it will take appropriate action, including striking pleadings, sanctions, or disciplinary referral. Mistake, lack of technical expertise, or time constraints will not be accepted as good faith excuses.
The paragraph appears in the Amended 2025 order, signed August 20, 2025, and again, unchanged, in the 2026 order signed February 18, 2026. Firms documenting compliance in Judge Edwards’s division may wish to add the note the order describes at the end of AI-assisted filings, since the order asks for it.
Related orders
The consequence language and heading match section XI of Judge Thomas A. Cox, Jr.’s civil case management order, entered August 11, 2025.
Primary sources
How this order changed
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- activeJudge Edwards signs the Amended 2025 Standing Case Management Order for Civil Cases (No. 25-EX-001483, filed August 21, 2025), including the paragraph on the use of artificial intelligence. source
- Judge Edwards signs the 2026 Standing Case Management Order for Civil Cases (No. 26-EX-000342, filed February 19, 2026), which repeats the AI paragraph unchanged. source