On April 1, 2025, two important changes to the Eleventh Circuit’s filing rules will take effect. First, all sealed documents must be sealed through ECF. See 11th Cir. R. 25-3(h). Instructions for doing so are available on the Eleventh Circuit’s website. Second, the court will no longer accept submission of paper copies of briefs and appendices at the time those documents are filed. See 11th Cir. R. 30-1(d) & 31-3.
As to the second change, parties will receive a notice from the clerk, once briefing has concluded, “directing each party to submit the specified number of paper copies of briefs and appendices within seven days of the date of the notice.” Notice Regarding Revisions to the Eleventh Circuit Rules, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Mar. 25, 2025), https://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/node/6167. The clerk will send an additional notice requesting paper copies if the case is slotted for oral argument. But parties should not submit paper copies should be submitted unless and until they receive such a notice. Note that paper copies already submitted in accordance with 11th Circuit Rules 30-1(d) and 31-3 need not be resubmitted when this rule change goes into effect.
Paper copies of briefs submitted through ECF “must include the ECF docketing header from the electronically filed version of the brief.” Appendices filed through ECF should “have the ECF docketing header . . . on the cover page for the paper copies of the appendix.”
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