- 1 REQUIREMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR TYPOGRAPHY IN
BRIEFS AND OTHER PAPERS
Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32 contains detailed requirements for
the production of briefs, motions, appendices, and other papers that will be
presented to the judges.
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- 1 REQUIREMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR TYPOGRAPHY IN
BRIEFS AND OTHER PAPERS
Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32 contains detailed requirements for
the production of briefs, motions, appendices, and other papers that will be
presented to the judges.
Rule 32 is designed not only to make documents
more readable but also to ensure that different methods of reproduction (and
different levels of technological sophistication among lawyers) do not affect
the length of a brief.
The following information may help you better understand Rule 32 and associated local rules.
The Committee Note to Rule 32 provides additional helpful information.
This section of the handbook also includes some suggestions to help you
make your submissions more legible—and thus more likely to be grasped and
retained.
In days gone past lawyers would send their work to printers, who
knew the tricks of that trade.
Now composition is in-house, done by people
with no education in printing.
Some of the printer’s tool
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