Any appellate practitioner with a practice that includes representing amicus curiae parties in the Pennsylvania appellate courts needs to know about the significant amendments to Pa. R.A.P. 531 that will become effective on Oct. 1. Not too long ago—before 1992—amicus curiae briefs in Pennsylvania were essentially unlimited, with a 70-page limit. That year saw the current limits on amicus curiae submissions introduced as part of the court system’s overall conversion to a modern (post-word-processing) system of word counts, rather than page limitations. Still, the Pennsylvania amicus rule was generous. Rule 531′s requirement that amicus curiae briefs be filed “in the manner … allowed by these rules with respect to the party whose position … the amicus brief will support,” meant that amici inherited the parties’ 14,000-word count under Pa. R.A.P. 2135(a).
No longer.
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