1st Cir. R. 34.1

(a) Terms. The court shall not hold formal terms but shall be deemed always open for the purpose

of docketing appeals and petitions, making motions, filing records, briefs and appendices,

filing opinions and entering orders and judgments. Where a federal holiday falls on a Monday,

the general order is that the court shall commence its sitting on Tuesday.

(b) Sittings.

(1) Locations. Sittings will be in Boston except that there will also be sittings in Puerto Rico

in November and March and at such other times and places as the court orders. Cases

arising in Puerto Rico which are assigned to other sessions may be reassigned to sessions

scheduled to be conducted in Puerto Rico. All other cases will be assigned for hearing or

submission to the next available session after the briefs have been filed or the time therefor

has run.

(2) Request for Assignment. Requests for assignment to a specific session, including the

March and November sessions, must state reasons justifying special treatment.

Assignment to the November and March Puerto Rico session list, so long as space permits,

will be made on the basis of statutory priority requirements, hardship that would result

from travel to Boston, or other good cause shown.

(c) Calendaring. Approximately six weeks prior to hearing, the clerk will contact counsel

concerning assignment of the case to a specific day, and request the name of the person who

will present the oral argument. Two weeks before the monthly sitting commences the clerk

will prepare and distribute an order assigning the cases for that session for hearing. The court

reserves the privilege of reducing the allotted time for argument when the case is presented.

(d) Continuances. Once a case is scheduled for argument, continuances may be allowed only for

grave cause.