We previously posted on Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(i), which is the rule governing the adoption of part or all of another’s brief. We initially looked at decisions addressing the burden on ...

Federal appellate lawyers might well have to whittle down their arguments by the end of next year. A proposal to reduce the number of words allowed in a principal brief is working its way up the ...

Now that many of us are still reeling in shock following the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's recent announcement that it has adopted a 5 p.m. electronic filing deadline, even after ...

On December 1, 2016, a set of rule amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure became effective. The amended rules and details of the amendments can be ...

Convicted militia leader Schaeffer Cox has been given more time to file an appeal brief with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Cox was convicted in 2012 of nine federal charges, including ...

Ultimately, the brief contends that there was no evidence Michelle Troconis ever conspired with Fotis Dulos to kill his ...

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From an order today in Doe v. Roe 1, by Judges Barry Silverman and Eric Miller (9th Cir.): The motion to intervene filed by Eugene Volokh (Docket Entry No. [22]) for the sole purpose of seeking ...

The city of Santa Monica filed its opening brief Friday in the appellate phase of the voting rights case initiated by Latino residents who allege the city's election system dilutes their voting power.