Circuit Rules - United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Circuit Rules

Circuit Rules (C.I.R.)

Circuit Rule 1. Scope of Rules
Circuit Rule 2. Suspension of Rules
Circuit Rule 3. Notice of Appeal, Docketing Fee, Docketing Statement, and Designation of Counsel of Record
Circuit Rule 8. Motions for Stays and Injunctions Pending Appeal
Circuit Rule 9. Motions Concerning Custody Pending Trial or Appeal
Circuit Rule 10. Preparation of Record in District Court Appeals
Circuit Rule 11. Record on Appeal
Circuit Rule 12. Docketing the Appeal
Circuit Rule 22. Death Penalty Cases
Circuit Rule 22.2. Successive Petitions for Collateral Review
Circuit Rule 25. Electronic Filing
Circuit Rule 26. Extensions of Time to File Briefs
Circuit Rule 26.1. Disclosure Statement
Circuit Rule 27. Emergency Filings
Circuit Rule 28. Briefs
Circuit Rule 28.1. Cross Appeals
Circuit Rule 29. Brief of an Amicus Curiae
Circuit Rule 30. Appendices
Circuit Rule 31. Filing of Briefs and Failure to Timely File Briefs
Circuit Rule 32. Form of a Brief
Circuit Rule 32.1. Publication of Opinions
Circuit Rule 33. Prehearing Conference
Circuit Rule 34. Oral Argument
Circuit Rule 35. Petitions for Rehearing En Banc
Circuit Rule 36. Reassignment of Remanded Cases
Circuit Rule 39. Costs of Printing Briefs and Appendices
Circuit Rule 40. Petitions for Rehearing
Circuit Rule 41. Immediate Issuance of Mandate After Certain Dispositions
Circuit Rule 43. Change in Public Offices
Circuit Rule 45. Fees
Circuit Rule 46. Attorneys
Circuit Rule 46.1. Duties, Withdrawal, and Appointment of Trial Counsel in Criminal Cases
Circuit Rule 47. Advisory Committee
Circuit Rule 50. Judges to Give Reasons When Dismissing a Claim, Granting Summary Judgment, or Entering an Appealable Order
Circuit Rule 51. Summary Disposition of Certain Appeals by Convicted Persons; Waiver of Appeal
Circuit Rule 52. Certification of Questions of State Law
Circuit Rule 53. Plan for Publication of Opinions of the Seventh Circuit Promulgated Pursuant to Resolution of the Judicial Conference of the United States
Circuit Rule 54. Remands from Supreme Court
Circuit Rule 55. Prohibition of Photographs and Broadcasts
Circuit Rule 56. Opportunity to Object and Make Proposals On the Record
Circuit Rule 57. Remands for Revision of Judgment
Circuit Rule 60. Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference