HOW TO APPEAL A CIVIL CASE TO THE UNITED STATES …

1 TABLE OF OF TO AND notice OF TO PRACTICE BEFORE THE SECOND OF A APPEALS APPEAL PRE-ARGUMENT APPEALS MANAGEMENT PLAN (CAMP)..5 THE TRANSCRIPT (FRAP 10(b))..5 PAYMENT FOR THE TRANSCRIPT (FRAP 10(b)(4))..6 RECEIPT OF THE TRANSCRIPT & NOTIFICATION AND OF BRIEF AND AND FOR OF TO UNDER FOR REHEARING OR MOTION FOR OF FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME STATES TAX COURT CLERKS IN THE DISTRICT CIRCUIT CLERK S TO APPEAL A CIVIL CASETO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSFOR THE SECOND CIRCUITR evised 9-16 NOTICECase Management/Electronic case Filing ( CM/ECF )

2 In all cases with a docket number beginning with 10- or greater, all counsel who appear in a casebefore this Court must electronically file documents in CM/ECF. See LR Every counseladmitted to practice in this Court must be registered as a filing user in CM/ECF. See id. INTRODUCTIONT hese instructions are provided to alert counsel and pro se litigants to particular aspects of thisCourt s practice. The instructions must be read together with the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure(FRAP), this Court s Local Rules (LRs) and Internal Operation Procedures (IOPs), and applicable statutesand case law.

3 FRAP, the LRs and IOPs, and all relevant Court forms are posted on the Court s notice OF APPEALA party who wishes to APPEAL a district court s final decision or an interlocutory order specified in28 1292(a) can obtain a notice of APPEAL form from the district court and must file the notice ofAppeal in the district court within 30 days after the entry of the judgment or order being appealed. Whenthe UNITED STATES or its officer or agency is a party, the notice of APPEAL must be filed by any party within60 days after the entry of the judgment or order being a party files one of the following motions in district court, the time to file an APPEAL runs from the entry of the order determining the last of the motions:* for judgment under Fed.

4 R. Civ. P. 50(b);* to amend or make additional factual findings under Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(b);* for attorney s fees under Fed. R. Civ. P. 54 if the district court extends the time to APPEAL under Fed. R. Civ. P. 58;* to alter or amend the judgment under Fed. R. Civ. P. 59;* for a new trial under Fed. R. Civ. P. 59; * for relief under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60 if the motion is filed no more than 28 days after the judgment is entered. A party must promptly notify this Court when the party has filed one of the above motions in thedistrict court. Within 14 days of the district court disposing of the last of any of the above motions, the partywho filed the motion(s) must notify this Court that the district court has acted on the motion(s).

5 A notice of APPEAL filed after the decision or order is announced but before it is entered is treatedas filed on the day of entry. A notice of APPEAL filed after the entry of judgment but before the last of themotions described above is decided is treated as filed when the order determining the last of the motions isentered. FRAP 4(a)(4).1A party that seeks to challenge an order determining a motion listed above must file the notice ofappeal, or an amended notice of APPEAL , in compliance with FRAP 3(c). The time to file runs from the entryof the order deciding the last of the motions listed above.

6 Only the district court can extend the time to file a notice of APPEAL . The circumstances whenan extension can be granted are set forth in FRAP 4(a)(5) and 4(a)(6). BANKRUPTCY APPEALSIf a party files a timely motion for rehearing under Bankruptcy Rule 8015, the time to file an appealruns from the entry of the order determining the motion. A party must promptly notify this Court when theparty has filed this motion in the district court. LR Within 14 days of the district court disposing of themotion, the party who filed the motion must notify this Court that the district court has acted on the motion.

7 notice of APPEAL filed after the decision or order is announced but before it is entered is treated asfiled on the day of entry. A notice of APPEAL filed after the entry of judgment but before a motion describedabove is decided is treated as filed when the order determining the motion is entered. FRAP 6(b)(2). PERMISSION TO APPEALOn occasion a district judge may issue an otherwise unappealable order in which the judge STATES that a controlling question of law exists as to which there is a substantial ground for a difference of opinion andan immediate APPEAL from the order may materially advance the outcome of the case .

8 Upon a motion froma party made within 10 days of the date of the district court order, the Court of Appeals, as an exercise ofdiscretion, may permit the APPEAL . See 28 1292(b).The requirements for filing the application are set forth in FRAP 5. The filing of the applicationwith the Court of Appeals does not stay the proceedings in the district court unless the district judge soorders. To file a petition for permission to APPEAL an order granting or denying class certification, please referto Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(f).DOCKET FEEThe appellant must pay the $500 docket fee, plus $ processing fee, to the district court clerkwhen the notice of APPEAL is filed.

9 An appellant who cannot afford to pay the fee must file in the district court a motion for "in formapauperis"( IFP ) status unless the district court already permitted the defendant to proceed IFP in that courtand has not revoked that status. See 28 1915; FRAP 24. The motion for IFP must include (1) the Court s T-1080 Motion Information Statement (see Motions,2below), (2) a statement explaining the merits of the APPEAL , and (3) a completed FRAP Form 4 (AffidavitAccompanying Motion for Permission to APPEAL in Forma Pauperis). See FRAP 24(a); LR ; LR (a)(1), (2).

10 The motion must be served on all other parties in the case , and a proof of service form must besubmitted with the motion. The motion papers must be typed or legibly 14 days of the filing of the notice of APPEAL , if the fee has not been paid, an appellant must(1) move for IFP status in the district court; (2) move for IFP status in the Court of Appeals if the districtcourt has denied or withdrawn IFP status; or, (3) notify the Court of Appeals that the appellant will makea motion for IFP status within 30 days of the service of notice that the district court has denied a pendingrequest for IFP status.