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title: "California citation personal-verification record (Code Civ. Proc. 128.7(b)(2), from 1 January 2027)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/us-ca-citation-personal-verification-record"
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site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a5-us-ca-citation-personal-verification-record"
area_id: "A5"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-11-07"
---

# California citation personal-verification record (Code Civ. Proc. 128.7(b)(2), from 1 January 2027)

> File record showing that the responsible California attorney personally verified each citation in a filing, as Code Civ. Proc. 128.7(b)(2) requires from 1 January 2027, including citations an AI tool suggested.

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Law stated as at: 2026-11-07

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution.md)
- Jurisdictions: United States, California
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-11-07
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-11-07 against the 3 authorities it cites, for United States and California.

## When to use it

Use for every brief, pleading, motion or other paper filed in a California court from 1 January 2027. Keep it in the matter file. It is not filed. It supports the disclosure statement and answers any later question about how citations were checked.

## How AI may be used

A tool may extract every citation from the draft into the table. Only the responsible attorney opens each source and marks it verified.

**AI may:**

- Extract each citation and the proposition it is cited for into the table
- Flag citations that appear only once, have no pin cite or quote text
- Compare a quotation in the draft with text the attorney has pasted from the source

**AI must not:**

- Must not mark any citation as verified, or fill in the 'verified by' or date columns
- Must not say a case exists or what it holds unless the attorney has opened it
- Must not suggest a replacement authority without flagging it as new and unverified

**The lawyer checks:**

- Each source was opened by the responsible attorney in an official reporter or a reliable database
- Each quotation matches the source word for word and the pin cite is right
- The final filed version matches the version checked; any later edit was rechecked

## Authorities

- [Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 128.7(b)(2), as amended by SB 574 (Stats. 2026, ch. 858), operative 1 January 2027: no citation the responsible attorney has not personally verified, including any citation provided by generative AI](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB574)
- [Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6068.1, added by SB 574 (Stats. 2026, ch. 858), operative 1 January 2027: (a)(2) no delegation of the practice of law to generative AI; (a)(3)(A) to (C) information, verification and court disclosure duties; (b) definitions, including personal identifying information](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB574)
- [Noland v. Land of the Free, L.P., B331918 (Cal. Ct. App. 2025, published)](https://courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/B331918.PDF)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/us-ca-citation-personal-verification-record and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*