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Thank you for taking the time to review the website for On-Point Paralegal Services, LLC. Our associates specialize in preparing appellate briefs and appendicies for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals at FLAT RATES. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reviews orders and
judgments rendered from federal courts located in Alaska TIPS ON NINTH CIRCUIT APPELLATE PRACTICE
Civil Appeal Docketing Statement. Transcripts. (4) Effect of a Motion on a Notice of Appeal.As such, the notice or statement is out of time unless you served it within 10 days of filing the Notice of Appeal or the disposition of one of the motions specified in FRAP 4, supra, properly filed in the USDC. Appellee would be required to respond to the notice or statement within 10 days of the service date of appellant's notice or statement. Ninth Circuit Local Rule 10-3.1(b). Appellee may request that additional transcripts be ordered. Id. Representation Statement. Transcripts. If no transcripts need to be ordered, a statement to that effect should be filed with the USDC. "If the parties agree that no transcripts are necessary, appellant shall file in the district court a notice stating that no transcripts will be ordered, and provide copies of this notice to the court reporter and the Court of Appeals." Ninth Circuit Local Rule 10-3.1(c). Briefs."Parties shall observe the briefing schedule set forth in FRAP 31(a) unless a briefing schedule is established by an order of the Court of Appeals or district court. " Ninth Circuit Local Rule 10-31-2.1(a). Appellant's initial brief is due within forty days after the filing of the trial court record on appeal. Fed. R. App. P. 31(a). In the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that is the day that the district court clerk files the so-called "certificate of record." Ninth Circuit Local Rule 11-2. The Ninth Circuit, however, may choose to establish a briefing schedule by order. Ninth Circuit Local Rule 31-2.1(a). The cover of the appellant's initial brief shall be blue, the appellee's, red and the appellants reply brief shall be gray. Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(2). The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure limit the amount of pages a brief may contain, or alternatively by word count. Briefs with a monospaced typeface are limited to 10.5 characters per inch. Briefs with a proportionally spaced typeface must include serifs and be 14-point or larger. Headings and captions may be in sans-serif type. All briefs must be double-spaced except that headings, footnotes and quotations more than two lines long may be single-spaced. An initial brief may not exceed thirty pages, fourteen thousand words, or one thousand three hundred lines if monospaced. A reply brief may not exceed half the type volume for an initial brief. Fed. R. App. P. 32. The brief shall include a "Certificate of Compliance" that confirms compliance with the type volume restrictions in a format that the Ninth Circuit has provided in its Form 8. All briefs must be on 8-1/2 by 11 inch paper. Margins must be at least one inch on all four sides. The brief must contain the following in this order as per Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 29(a):
The foregoing are the requirements set by the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Local Rules contain the following additional requirements:
Appellee's brief must be served and filed within thirty days after service of appellant's initial brief, Fed. R. App. P. 31(a), but this is extended by three days if appellant's brief was served by mail. Fed. R. App. P. 26(c). Appellee's brief must adhere to the same format as appellant's initial brief except that the Statement of Jurisdiction may simply state appellee's agreement with appellant's statement, and the Statements of Issues, the Statement of the Case and the Standard of Review may be omitted if appellee does not disagree with appellants statements in those sections of its initial brief. Appellant may serve and file a reply brief within fourteen days after service of appellee's brief, which is also extended by three days if appellee uses service by mail. Fed. R. App. P. 26(c), 31(a). Appendicies.Within 10 days of when the record is filed, the appellant must send a designation to all adversaries advising what the contents of the appendix will be and asking whether additional materials need to be added. FRAP 30(b)(1). The appellee then has 10 days to ask for additional materials to be included. FRAP 30(b)(1).Appendices get filed along with the brief. FRAP 30(a)(3).
NOTICE TO NON-ATTORNEYS
In order to retain these services you must either be a licensed attorney or a pro se non-attorney who wishes to retain us as a consultant to your attorney. Many parties choose this option if they want to have a paralegal prepare conduct their legal research at a significantly lesser rate than would be charged by an attorney, providing that their attorney is amenable to such an arrangement. We do not interfere with attorney-client relationships. If you choose this option, our work product will be provided to your attorney in an editable format via CD or e-mail. If you pay us directly we will also serve you with a copy of the work product. If you are pro se or pro per, we will prepare a pro se brief and appendix for you that is ready to be signed and submitted as-is, but you will need an attorney who will accept a copy of the materials on your behalf. If you retain us, you are technically retaining us to prepare the brief and appendix for the attorney, not for you, although the brief can be prepared as a pro se brief upon request. We will not provide you legal advice. Although such an arrangement allows us to provide you low cost brief writing and legal research services, this only allows us to conduct your legal research and prepare you a legal brief. It does not allow us to provide you legal advice or counsel. Only a licensed attorney may provide you legal advice. |
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