E.D. Mo.: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri: Artificial Intelligen…
Published by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri · U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Verified September 30, 2026
- Citation
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri: Artificial Intelligence (Court Notice)
- Order date
- 2024
Status and scope
No AI-specific filing obligation: in force, but it imposes no disclosure, verification, or use restriction on attorney filings beyond existing rules. It provides: 'By presenting to the Court any pleading, written motion, or other paper', whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it, 'self-represented parties and attorneys acknowledge they will be held responsible for its contents, including any portion generated with artificial intelligence. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b).'
What the instrument provides
- 'By presenting to the Court any pleading, written motion, or other paper', whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it, 'self-represented parties and attorneys acknowledge they will be held responsible for its contents, including any portion generated with artificial intelligence. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b).'
- The notice imposes no disclosure or certification requirement.
Practice areas: federal civil
What the notice says
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Artificial Intelligence notice (current text since 2024). The page, in the court’s section for attorneys, states in full: “By presenting to the Court any pleading, written motion, or other paper”, whether “by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it”, “self-represented parties and attorneys acknowledge they will be held responsible for its contents, including any portion generated with artificial intelligence. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b).”
Earlier version (2023 to 2024)
Before the current text, the court’s self-represented litigants page carried a stricter statement under the heading “Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (including ChatGPT, Harvey.AI, and Google Bard)”: “No portion of any pleading, written motion, or other paper may be drafted by any form of generative artificial intelligence.” It then stated that filers “acknowledge they will be held responsible for its contents.” Internet Archive captures show that text on August 23, 2023 and still on August 25, 2024. By September 18, 2024 the same heading carried the current sentence, and the prohibition was gone. This is the earlier, stricter version that Ropes & Gray’s summary describes.
How the tracker treats it
The notice is listed as advisory. It restates Rule 11(b) as applied to AI-generated content: the signer answers for AI-generated portions of a filing. It imposes no disclosure or certification step.