FILED
U.S. DISTnlCT counT
OISTlllC r OF WYOMING
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MAY 1 3 2025
FOR THE DISTRICT OF WYOMING Margaret BotKins, Clerk
Cheyenne
GENERAL ORDER:
REGARDING THE USE OF GENERAL ORDER NO. 25-01
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
IN THE PREPARATION OF FILINGS
GENERAL ORDER CONCERNING THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE IN THE PREPARATION OF FILINGS
The Court notes with growing frequency litigants in the United States District
Court for the District of Wyoming are using Artificial Intelligence (.. Al") to prepare
motions and other papers filed in this Court. Given this and other courts' recent
experiences, it is necessary to remind all litigants that appear in this court, represented or
pro se, of their obligations under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 11
requires legal contentions in documents filed with a cou1t be warranted by existing law.
The Court recognizes that AI can be beneficial to attorneys and their clients and to
unrepresented litigants. Even so, examples of filings have been brought to this Court's
attention that appear to include Al-generated arguments and citations not warranted by
existing law. In some cases, litigants or their counsel have filed documents that use Al
which generate citations to non-existent cases (also known as "hallucinated" legal
authority). This practice is strictly prohibited and subject to sanction.
