United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

The following Local Appellate Rules (L. A. R.) are adopted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit as supplementary to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure (FRAP) and apply to procedure in this court. The numbering of the Local Appellate Rules has been organized to follow the numbering system of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in order to increase public accessibility to the Rules. Where a local rule has no counterpart in the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure it is classified as a Miscellaneous Rule. The Miscellaneous Local Appellate Rules begin with Rule 101.0.