E.D. Pa.: Standing Order Re Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Cases Assigned to Judge Bayls…
Judge Michael M. Baylson · U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Verified April 27, 2026
- Citation
- Standing Order Re Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Cases Assigned to Judge Baylson
- Order date
- June 6, 2023
Summary
If any attorney for a party, or a pro se party, has used Artificial Intelligence in the preparation of any complaint, answer, motion, brief, or other paper filed with the Court, they must disclose in a clear and plain factual statement that AI has been used in any way in the preparation of the filing.
What does the order require?
- If any attorney for a party, or a pro se party, has used Artificial Intelligence in the preparation of any complaint, answer, motion, brief, or other paper filed with the Court, they must disclose in a clear and plain factual statement that AI has been used in any way in the preparation of the filing.
- The filer must certify that each and every citation to the law or the record in the paper has been verified as accurate.
- Applies to all cases assigned to Judge Michael M. Baylson.
Practice areas: federal civil, federal criminal
What the order requires
Judge Michael M. Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered this standing order on June 6, 2023. The operative text is short and reads in full:
If any attorney for a party, or a pro se party, has used Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in the preparation of any complaint, answer, motion, brief, or other paper, filed with the Court, and assigned to Judge Michael M. Baylson, MUST, in a clear and plain factual statement, disclose that AI has been used in any way in the preparation of the filing, and CERTIFY, that each and every citation to the law or the record in the paper, has been verified as accurate.
Two obligations: disclose use, and certify verification of every citation to law and to the record.
Scope
The order applies only to matters before Judge Baylson. There is no E.D. Pa. district-wide AI order, so practitioners with E.D. Pa. dockets should check chambers rules judge-by-judge.
Practitioner workflow
Add a disclosure-and-certification block to brief templates flagged for Baylson matters. The certification covers both legal citations and record citations, so the verification step must include record cites, not just case law.
Primary source
Court landing page: https://www.paed.uscourts.gov/rules-orders/standing-order-re-artificial-intelligence-ai-cases-assigned-judge-baylson
Sanctions cases decided under this order
Cases in our tracker where this rule appears to have produced or directly informed the sanctions decision.
- Bevins v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. , Apr 2025