Deadline to Comment on Federal Appellate Rule Amendments Approaches

Although the next wave of significant proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure are not likely to go into effect until December 2009, now is the time to focus on the details of these changes. The deadline for public comment on the proposals is this month — Feb. 15, to be precise.

The most significant change under consideration to the federal appellate rules . . .

Read the rest of Howard Bashman’s article on Law.com.

Bashman also provides the following helpful links:

For more information on the proposed FRAP changes, you may access the material as follows:

– FRAP changes dealing principally with calculation of time

– FRAP changes not dealing principally with calculation of time

– FRCP changes of interest to appellate practitioners

Comments on any or all of these rule changes can be submitted via e-mail to Rules_Comments@ao.uscourts.gov.