Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in the United States

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An unannotated version of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) is posted free online and in ebook by the Legal Information Institute and is republished in the Federal Court of Appeals Manual. Annotated versions are published at the end of Title 28 of the United States Code Annotated (USCA) and the United States Code Service (USCS).

Unannotated editions are also published in the softcover O’Connor’s Federal Rules: Civil Trials (Jones McClure Publishing), Federal Civil Judicial Procedure and Rules (West) and the first Moore’s Federal Rules Pamphlet that comes with the big Moore’s Federal Practice set (Lexis/Matthew Bender).

Local Rules

The Local Rules of the various Circuit Courts are generally posted free on the relevant court’s Web site. You can link to these rules directly through the LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets database. The Local Rules are also published in the “Local Rules” volume of the Federal Court of Appeals Manual (West).

Federal Procedure Rules

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (FRCrP) and the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) are each published as independent volumes. The FRCP and FRAP are also published in the softcover Federal Civil Judicial Procedure and Rules (West) and O’Connor’s Federal Rules: Civil Trials (Jones McClure). The FRAP is included in Federal Court of Appeals Manual: Local Rules (West). What’s more, all three rules sets are included at the end of Moore’s Federal Practice set, in the Moore’s Federal Rules Pamphlet, and in the Federal Procedure Rules Service at the end of the Federal Procedure set. As if that wasn’t enough, they are also published at the end of Title 28 of the United States Code, and they are posted free online and in eBook format by the Legal Information Institute.

For better searching, you can use one of the online U.S. Code databases (see “United States Code” below), or one of the special data bases just for the Federal Rules.

Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in the U.S. Code

The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure appear in the Appendix to Title 28 of the United State Code.

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Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in Federal Practice and Procedure

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Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure