On May 28, the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure convened in Washington, D.C., to consider and vote on various pending proposed amendments to the federal judicial rules of procedure. At the meeting, the so-called Standing Committee approved a proposal scheduled to take effect Dec. 1, 2016, to reduce the maximum word length of federal appellate briefs from the current 14,000-word limit.
Nine months ago, my September 2014 column focused on this same federal appellate brief word-limit reduction proposal. The public comment period had only just begun at that point, and the specific new word limit then under consideration was a maximum word limit of 12,500 words, representing nearly an 11 percent reduction.
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