US · rules
E.D. Tenn. L.R. 5.1
General Format of Papers Presented for Filing
All pleadings, motions, and other papers presented for filing shall be on 8 ½ x 11 inch
white paper of good quality, flat and unfolded, unbound, stapled only in the top left corner, and
shall be plainly typewritten, printed, or prepared by a clearly legible duplication process, and
double-spaced, except for quoted material, and shall contain the name, address, and telephone
number and Board of Professional Responsibility Number of the attorney filing the document.
Each page shall be numbered consecutively at the bottom. In the event a case is removed from
state court, documents originally prepared on 8 ½ x 14 inch paper must be reduced to 8 ½ x 11
inch size before filing. All exhibits to pleadings shall be paginated and shall also show an exhibit
number or letter.
Font size (for footnotes as well as the body of the document) shall be no smaller than 12.
Lines must be double-spaced, except that: (1) quotations may be indented and single-spaced; and
(2) headings and footnotes may be single-spaced. Margins must be at least one inch on all four
sides. Page numbers may be placed in the bottom margin, but no text may appear there.
Documents submitted for electronic filing in PDF format must meet the requirements of
this rule.
Provenance
- Source
- www.tned.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-19
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