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GUIDELINES

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSFOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas

INTRODUCTION

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

OUR COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii

TABLE OF CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

RECORD EXCERPTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Mandatory Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Optional Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Agency Review Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

BRIEFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Appellant’s Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Appellee’s Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Reply Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Electronic Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Form of Briefs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

REQUIREMENTS FOR TYPOGRAPHY IN BRIEFS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

TIME SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

FILING AND SERVICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

ELECTRONIC FILING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

SPECIFICATION CHART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

SAMPLE COVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

APPELLATE SERVICES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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RECORD EXCERPTS5th Circ. R. 30

Record excerpts shall be filed in lieu of the appendix prescribed byFRAP 30. Four copies of the record excerpts must accompany the appel-lant’s brief. If exempt from electronic filing under 5th Cir. R. 25.2, allappellants represented by counsel must file an electronic copy of therecord excerpts on a CD, computer diskette, or such other electronicmedium as the clerk may authorize. The electronic copy must be in a sin-gle Portable Document Format (PDF) file; contain nothing other thanthe record excerpts; and have as the first page of the electronic copy anindex to the contents. If submitted on a CD, diskette, or other authorizedphysical media, the electronic version must have a label containing thecase name and docket number and state “Record Excerpts.” The appel-lant must serve a paper and electronic copy of the excerpts on counselfor each of the parties separately represented; a paper copy on any partyproceeding pro se, and an electronic copy, if the pro se party is not aninmate confined in an institution. The Certificate of Service must indi-cate service in both paper and electronic form. The appellee may simi-larly submit and serve additional record excerpts with the appellee’sprincipal brief, with the required copies furnished to the clerk accompa-nying the appellee’s brief.

Mandatory ContentsThe record excerpts must contain copies of the following portions of

the district court record:

(a) The docket sheet;(b) The notice of appeal;(c) The indictment in criminal cases;(d) The verdict of the jury in all cases;(e) The judgment or interlocutory order appealed;(f) Any other orders or rulings sought to be reviewed;(g) Any relevant magistrate judge’s report and recommendation;(h) Any supporting opinion or findings of fact and conclusions of

law filed, or transcript pages of any such delivered orally; and(i) A certificate of service.

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Optional ContentsThe record excerpts may include those parts of the record, referred

to in the briefs, including:

(a) Essential pleadings or relevant portions thereof;

(b) The parts of FRAP 16(e) pretrial order relevant to any issue onappeal;

(c) Any jury instruction given or refused that presents an issue onappeal, together with any objection and the court’s ruling, andany other relevant part of the jury charge;

(d) Findings and conclusions of the administrative law judge, if theappeal is of a court order reviewing an administrative agencydetermination;

(e) A copy of the relevant pages of the transcript when the appealchallenges the admission or exclusion of evidence or any otherinterlocutory ruling or order; and

(f) The relevant parts of any written exhibit (including affidavits)that present an issue on appeal.

Length

The optional contents of the record excerpts must not exceed40 pages unless authorized by the court.

Form

The record excerpts shall:

(a) Have a numbered table of contents, with citation to therecord, beginning with the lower court docket sheet;

(b) Be on letter-size, white paper, reproduced by any processthat results in a clear black image, with care being taken toreproduce fully the document filing date column on thedocket sheet;

(c) Tabbed to correspond to the numbers assigned in the table ofcontents;

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(d) Bound so as to expose fully the filing date columns and allowthe document to lie reasonably flat when opened, with adurable white cover. NOTE: While the court accepts perfectbinding, spiral binding is the preferred format.

The documents that constitute the record excerpts need not becertified, but if the clerk’s “filed” markings are either absent or notclearly legible, the accurate filing information should be typed orwritten thereon.

Pursuant to FRAP 32(a), the record excerpts shall be printed one-sided.

APPENDIX5th Circ. R. 30.2

Agency Review Proceedings

Petitions for review or enforcement of orders of an administrativeagency, board, commission or officer must proceed on the originalrecord on review, without a FRAP 30 required appendix. If a partyrequests use of the original record, the clerk may require payment ofreasonable shipping costs, and the party is responsible for timelyreview and notification to the agency and the Fifth Circuit clerk’s officeof any record deficiencies, see 5th Cir. R. 30.1.

(a) If a certified list of documents comprising the record is filed inlieu of the formal record, petitioner must prepare and filewith the court and serve on the agency, board, or commis-sion a copy of the portions of the record relied upon by the par-ties in their briefs. The list of documents must be suitablycovered, numbered, and indexed and filed within 21 days of thefiling of respondent’s brief.

(b) Except in review proceedings covered by 5th Cir. R. 15. 3, at thetime of filing petitioner’s brief, petitioner must file sepa-rately 4 copies of any order sought to be reviewed and anysupporting opinion, findings of fact, or conclusions of lawfiled by the agency, board, commission, or officer.

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BRIEFS5th Circ. R. 28

Appellant’s Brief

(1) Certificate of interested persons (Mandatory for all corporateand individual parties) (Must be certified by Counsel of Record)

(2) Statement regarding oral argument

(3) Table of contents

(4) Table of authorities

(5) Jurisdictional statement

(6) Statement of issues presented for review

(7) Statement of the case

(8) Summary of argument

(9) Argument (include standard of review)

(10) Conclusion

(11) Certificate of service

(12) Certificate of compliance

Appellee’s Brief

The brief of the appellee shall conform to the requirements of subdi-vision (a)(1)-(12), except that a jurisdictional statement, statements ofthe issues, case and standard of review need not be made unless theappellee is dissatisfied with the statements of the appellant.

Reply Brief

All reply briefs shall contain a certificate of compliance (if over15 pages), a certificate of service, a table of contents and a table ofauthorities.

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5th Circ. R. 31 Electronic Briefs

Where a party is represented by counsel who is exempt from elec-tronic filing under 5th Cir. R. 25.2 and generates his or her brief by com-puter, one computer-readable disk containing a copy of the brief mustbe filed with the clerk, and a second computer-readable disk copyserved on unrepresented parties and counsel for separately represent-ed parties. However, the parties may agree in writing to waive serviceof paper copies of the brief and to be served with an electronic copyonly. The disk must contain nothing more than the brief and cover page.The brief must be prepared in Portable Document File (PDF) format.Briefs scanned into PDF are not acceptable. The disk’s label mustinclude the case name, docket number, identify the brief and specify theword processing software and version used to prepare the brief. Thebrief must be on a CD, computer disk, or such other electronic mediumas the clerk may authorize. The certificate of service must indicate serv-ice in both paper and electronic form.

FRAP 32(a) Form of Briefs

(1) Reproduction

(A) The paper must be opaque and unglazed. Only oneside of the paper may be used.

(B) Text must be reproduced with a clarity that equals orexceeds the output of a laser printer.

(C) Photographs, illustrations, and tables may be repro-duced by any method that results in a good copy ofthe original; a glossy finish is acceptable if the originalis glossy.

(2) Cover

The cover of the appellant’s brief must be blue; theappellee’s, red; an intervenor’s or amicus curiae’s, green;reply brief, gray; and any supplemental brief, tan. Thefront cover of a brief must contain:

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(A) the number of the case centered at the top;

(B) the name of the court;

(C) the title of the case (use the Case Caption providedby the Court in its Briefing Notice);

(D) the nature of the proceeding and the name of thecourt, agency or board below;

(E) the title of the brief, identifying the party or parties forwhom the brief is filed; and

(F) the name, office address, and telephone number ofcounsel representing the party for whom the brief isfiled.

(3) Binding

The brief must be bound in any manner that is secure,does not obscure the text, and permits the brief to lie rea-sonably flat when open. While the Court accepts perfectbinding, spiral binding is the preferred format.

(4) Paper Size, Line Spacing, and Margins

The brief must be on 81/2 by 11 inch paper. The text must bedouble-spaced, but quotations more than two lines longmay be indented and single-spaced. Headings and foot-notes may be single-spaced. Margins must be at least oneinch on all four sides. Page numbers may be placed in themargins, but no text may appear there.

(5) Typeface

Either a proportionally spaced (i.e. Times Roman) or amonospaced (i.e. Courier) typeface may be used.

(A) A proportionally spaced typeface must include serifs,but sans-serif type may be used in headings andcaptions. A proportionally spaced typeface must be14-point or larger.

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(B) A monospaced face may not contain more than101/2 characters per inch.

NOTE: Footnotes may be 12 point or larger in proportionallyspaced typeface, or 121/2 characters per inch orlarger in monospaced typeface (5th Cir. R. 32.1).

(6) Type StylesA brief must be set in a plain, roman style, although italics orboldface may be used for emphasis. Case names must be ital-icized or underlined.

(7) Length(A) Page limitation A principal brief may not exceed

30 pages, or a reply brief 15 pages, unless it complieswith Rule 32(a)(7)(B) and (C).

(B) Type-volume limitation

(i) A principal brief is acceptable if:

• it contains no more than 13,000 words; or• it uses a monospaced face and contains no

more than 1,300 lines of text.

(ii) A reply brief is acceptable if it contains nomore than half of the type volume specified inRule 32(a)(7)(B)(i).

(iii) Headings, footnotes, and quotations counttoward the word and line limitations. The cor-porate disclosure statement, table of contents,table of citations, statement with respect to oralargument, any addendum containing statutes,rules or regulations, and any certificates ofcounsel do not count toward the limitation.

(C) Certificate of compliance A brief submitted underRules 32.3 or 32(a)(7)(B) must include a certificateby the attorney, or an unrepresented party, that thebrief complies with the type-volume limitation. The

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person preparing the certificate may rely on the wordor line count of the word-processing system used toprepare the brief. The certificate must state either:

(i) the number of words in the brief; or(ii) the number of lines of monospaced type in the

brief.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR TYPOGRAPHY IN BRIEFS

Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32(a) contains detailed require-ments for the production of briefs. FRAP 32(a) is designed not only tomake documents more readable but also to ensure that different meth-ods of reproduction (and different levels of technological sophistica-tion among lawyers) do not affect the length of a brief. The followinginformation may help you better understand FRAP 32(a) and associat-ed local rules.

1. FRAP 32(a)(1)(B) requires text to be reproduced with “a claritythat equals or exceeds the output of a laser printer.” The resolution of alaser printer is expressed in dots per inch. First generation laser print-ers broke each inch into 300 dots vertically and horizontally, creatingcharacters from this 90,000-dot matrix. Second generation laser print-ers use 600 or 1200 dots per inch in each direction and thus produce asharper, more easily readable output; commercial typesetters use 2400dots per inch.

Any means of producing text that yields 300 dots per inch or more isacceptable. Daisy-wheel, typewriter, commercial printing, and manyink-jet printers meet this standard, as do photocopies of originals pro-duced by these methods. Dot matrix printers and fax machines uselower resolution, and their output is unacceptable.

2. FRAP 32(a)(5) distinguishes between proportional and mono-spaced fonts, and between serif and sans-serif type. It also requiresknowledge of points and pitch.

Proportionally spaced type uses different widths for different char-acters. A monospaced face, by contrast, uses the same width for eachcharacter. Most typewriters produce monospaced type, and most com-puters also can do so using fonts with names such as “Courier” or“Courier New.” The rule leaves to each lawyer the choice betweenproportional and monospaced type.

This sentence is in a proportionally spaced font; as youcan see, the m and i have different widths.

This sentence is in a monospaced font; as youcan see, the m and i have the same width.

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Serifs are small horizontal or vertical strokes at the ends of the linesthat make up the letters and numbers. The next line shows two charac-ters enlarged for detail. The first has serifs, the second does not.

Y YStudies have shown that long passages of serif type are easier to read

and comprehend than long passages of sans-serif type. The rule accord-ingly limits the principal sections of briefs to serif type, although sans-serif type may be used in headings and captions.

This sentence is in New Century Schoolbook, a propor-tionally spaced font with serifs. Baskerville, Bookman,Caslon, Garamond, Georgia, and Times are other commonserif faces.

This sentence is in Helvetica, a proportionally spacedsans-serif font. Arial, Eurostile, Trebuchet, Univers, andVerdana are other common sans-serif faces.

Type must be large enough to read comfortably. For a monospacedface, this means type approximating the old “pica” standard usedby typewriters, 10 characters per horizontal inch, rather than the old“elite” standard of 12 characters per inch. Because some computer ver-sions of monospaced type do not come to exactly 10 characters perinch, FRAP 32(a)(5)(B) allows up to 101/2 characters per inch, includingpunctuations and spaces.

Proportionally spaced characters vary in width, so a limit of charac-ters per line is not practical. Instead FRAP 32(a)(5)(A) requires a mini-mum of 14-point type. Local rules may vary. “Point” is a printing termfor the height of a character. Word processing and page layout pro-grams can expand or condense the type using tracking controls, or youmay have access to a condensed version of the face. Do not use these.Condensed type is prohibited by FRAP 32(a)(6). It offers no benefit tocounsel under an approach that measures the length of briefs in wordsrather than pages, and it is to your advantage to make the brief aslegible as possible.

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This is 9-point type.




This is 12-point type, condensed. Condensed type is not acceptable.



3. FRAP 32(a)(6) provides that the principal type must be a plain,roman style. In other words, the main body of the document cannot bebold, italic, capitalized, underlined, narrow, or condensed. This helps tokeep the brief legible. Italics or underlining may be used only for casenames or occasional emphasis. Boldface and all-caps text should beused sparingly.

4. FRAP 32(a)(7) determines the maximum length of a brief. Thevariability of proportionally spaced type makes it necessary to expressthis length in words rather than pages.

Lawyers who choose monospaced type may avoid word counts bycounting lines of type. Unless the brief employs a lot of block quotesor footnotes it will be enough to count pages and multiply by the num-ber of lines per page. (Fifty pages at 26 lines per page is 1,300 lines.)The line-count option is not available when the brief uses proportionaltype.

For most courts, principal briefs of 30 pages or less, and reply briefsof 15 pages or less, need not be accompanied by a word or line count.Think of FRAP 32(a)(7)(A) as a safe harbor. Lawyers who need moreshould use FRAP 32(a)(7)(B). A brief that meets the type volume limi-tations of FRAP 32(a)(7)(B) is acceptable without regard to the numberof pages it contains, as long as it is accompanied by a signed certificateof compliance.

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TIME SCHEDULE5th Circ. R. 31

Appellant’s brief must be sent to the clerk not later than 40 days afterthe date of the briefing notice. Appellee has 33 days from the date ofthe certificate of service to place the brief in the mail, file it with theclerk electronically where permitted or to give it to a third-party com-mercial carrier for delivery within 3 calendar days. This rule may not becombined with the additional time provisions of FRAP 26(c) to give theappellee 36 days to file a brief. Reply briefs must be filed within 17 daysfrom the date of the certificate of service of the appellee’s brief.

FILING AND SERVICEFRAP 25

Service and filing of briefs and record excerpts may be personal, bymail, or by third-party commercial carrier for delivery within 3 calendardays. Filing and service by mail or by commercial carrier is complete onmailing or delivery to the carrier.

A court of appeals may by local rule permit or require papers to befiled, signed, or verified by electronic means that are consistent withtechnical standards, if any, that the Judicial Conference of the UnitedStates establishes. A local rule may require filing by electronic meansonly if reasonable exceptions are allowed. A paper filed by electronicmeans in compliance with a local rule constitutes a written paper forthe purpose of applying these rules.

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ELECTRONIC FILING5th Circ. R. 25.2

All cases will be assigned to the court’s electronic filing system(CM/ECF). Counsel must register as Filing Users and comply with thecourt’s electronic filing standards which are posted on this court’s web-site, www.ca5.uscourts.gov.

Pro se litigants may request the clerk’s permission to register as aFiling User, in civil cases only, under such conditions as the clerk mayauthorize.

Filing. A Filing User’s electronic transmission of a document to theelectronic filing system is considered filed as of the date and time indi-cated on the notice of docket activity (“NDA”) that the court automati-cally generates following the filing transmission.

Except as authorized by the court’s electronic filing rules and stan-dards, documents the Filing User creates and files electronically mustbe in PDF text format (not scanned) and in paper format as prescribedby the clerk. An electronically filed document is deemed filed at thedate and time stated on the court’s NDA.

Filing Users may be required to file case-initiating documents in orig-inal proceedings, e.g., mandamus, petitions for second and successivehabeas corpus relief, petitions for review, etc., in paper format.Subsequent documents may be filed electronically and in paper formatas prescribed by the clerk.

Service. A Filing User’s registration constitutes consent to electronicservice of all documents. The court’s electronic NDA constitutes serv-ice of the filed document on all Filing Users. Parties who are not FilingUsers must be served with a copy of any document filed electronically.If the document is not available electronically, the filer must use analternative method of service. The court’s electronic NDA does not

replace the certificate of service requirement.

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Sealed Documents. A Filing User may move to file documents underseal in electronic form if permitted by law, and as authorized in the court’s electronic filing standards. The court’s order authorizingor denying the electronic filing of documents under seal may be filedelectronically. Documents ordered placed under seal may be filed traditionally in paper or electronically, as authorized by the court. Iffiled traditionally, a paper copy of the authorizing order must beattached to the documents under seal and delivered to the clerk.

Signature. The filing user’s login and password constitutes their sig-nature to file documents with the court. The filing user’s name underwhose login and password is submitted must be preceded by an “s/” in the area where a physical signature would go. Documents whichrequire more than one party’s signature must be filed electronically bysubmitting a scanned document containing all necessary signatures.

Hyperlinks. Electronically filed documents may contain the follow-ing types of hyperlinks to (i) other portions of the same document (ii)other CM/ECF or PACER documents; and (iii) between documents thatwill be filed at the same time. Hyperlinks to cited authority may notreplace standard citation format. Complete citations must be includedin the text of the filed document.

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SPECIFICATION CHART

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Document Color Limitation Serve File

Record Excerpts white no limit 1* 4**

Appellant’s Brief blue 13,000 words 1* 7**

Appellee’s Brief red 13,000 words 1* 7**

Reply Brief gray 6,500 words 1* 7**

Amicus Brief green 6,500 words 1* 7**

Petition for Rehearing white 3,900 words 1* 4**

Petition forRehearing white 3,900 words 1* 20**En Banc

Motion — 5,200 words 1* 4***

Appellant’s Principal Brief† blue 13,000 words 1* 7**

Appellee’s Principal & Response Brief† red 15,300 words 1* 7**

Appellant’s Response & Reply Brief† yellow 13,000 words 1* 7**

Appellee’s Reply Brief† gray 6,500 words 1* 7**

* Service of a paper copy is not required unless the recipient is not a CM/ECF Filing User and has not consented to other service.

** Filing paper copies will be requested by the court after the efiled document has been reviewed and noted to be sufficient.

***Filing paper copies not required.† Cross-Appeals.

SAMPLE COVER

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IN THE

United States Court of AppealsFOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

RECORD PRESS, INC.,Plaintiff-Appellant,

—v.—

ALL OTHER PARTIES,Defendants-Appellees.

ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTFOR THE ____________ DISTRICT OF ____________

BRIEF FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES

Of Counsel:

LAW FIRM

Attorneys for Defendants-AppelleesAddressPhone

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