New Appellate Rules Effective August 1, 2011
Revisions to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and Eleventh Circuit Rules took effect on August 1, 2012. You can view them on the Eleventh Circuit’s website by clicking here. Revisions include:
(1) give capital case panels flexibility in whether or not to hear oral argument. 11th Cir. R. 22-4(a) and (b), and IOP 2 following 11th Cir. R. 22-4;
(2) require that the jurisdictional statement in a brief contain all information required by FRAP 28(a)(4). 11th Cir. R. 28-1(g); and
(3) require the inclusion of state court opinions and orders in record excerpts filed in state habeas corpus appeals. 11th Cir. R. 30-1(g).
