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Dec. 6, 2022
Fed. Appendectomy: RIP Fed.App’x (2001-2021)
From its birth, it was a redundant oddity. The real question might be “how did it last for 20 years?”
Benjamin G. Shatz
Partner
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Appellate Law (Certified), Litigation
Email: bshatz@manatt.com
Benjamin is a certified specialist in appellate law who co-chairs the Appellate Practice Group at Manatt in the firm's Los Angeles office. Exceptionally Appealing appears the first Tuesday of the month.
Lawyers - especially appellate lawyers - are people of the book. We love our libraries, our treatises, and our voluminous case reporters. Without citations to precedent we cannot do our jobs. A brief that lacks citation to authorities is, at the very least, flawed. See Rules of Court, rules 8.204(a)(1)(B), 8.204(a)(1) (brief must have table of authorities). We fetishize citation format, e.g., the Cal. Style Manual. But none of that makes any sense withou...
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