D.N.M.: Standing Order Establishing Disclosure and Certification Requirements for Generat…
Judge Margaret I. Strickland · U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
Verified September 30, 2026
- Citation
- Standing Order Establishing Disclosure and Certification Requirements for Generative AI (Cases Assigned to Judge Strickland)
- Order date
- September 15, 2025
Summary
Any party, whether pro se or counseled, who uses any generative AI tool in preparing documents to be filed with the Court must disclose in the document that AI was used and identify the specific tool used.
What does the order require?
- Any party, whether pro se or counseled, who uses any generative AI tool in preparing documents to be filed with the Court must disclose in the document that AI was used and identify the specific tool used.
- The party or attorney must further certify that they have checked the accuracy of any portion of the document drafted by generative AI, including all citations and legal authority.
- If generative AI is used, the party or attorney will be held responsible for the contents under Rule 11 and the applicable rules of professional conduct and attorney discipline.
- Failure to make the disclosure and certification may result in sanctions.
Practice areas: federal civil, federal criminal
What the order requires
Judge Margaret I. Strickland of the District of New Mexico adopts the Rule-11-anchored disclose-and-certify framework in her standing order. The operative text is the same three-paragraph template used by Judge Palk (W.D. Okla., 2023) and Judge Kobayashi (D. Haw.): paragraph 1 requires disclosure of AI use and the tool and a certification of accuracy checking, paragraph 2 holds the filer responsible under Rule 11 and the rules of professional conduct, and paragraph 3 makes failure to disclose and certify sanctionable.
Scope
The order applies to all cases assigned to Judge Strickland.
Naming caveat
The PDF is hosted at nmd.uscourts.gov, which is the District of New Mexico, not the Northern District of Mississippi. Aggregator coverage occasionally mislabels the order. The proper Bluebook citation is “D.N.M.”