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The rules that decide whether your filing is accepted.
49,704 rules of procedure, evidence and appellate practice across 38 jurisdictions — the five national rule sets, the circuits' own rules, the local rules of the federal district courts, and the state courts of 37 more jurisdictions. Versioned the same way as statutes, so a rule that was renumbered last July is still answerable as it read last June.
(a) In General. Every pretrial motion and every pleading in response must be in writing and signed by the party making the motion or the attorney for the party…
- citation.display
- Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.190
- catchline
- Pretrial Motions
- validFrom → validTo
- 2026-07-13 → present
- temporalBasis
- act-effective-date
- provenance.sourceSystem
- floridabar.org
- provenance.retrievedAt
- 2026-09-14
This rule is why the court-rules corpus refreshes weekly. Florida renumbered 3.190(c)(4) to (d)(2); an agent citing the old subdivision was citing a rule that no longer said what it said.
check this record →Federal
Five national rule sets, plus the courts' own.
Cite a federal rule the way a brief cites it and the key is the abbreviation plus the number. The rule sets carry two sources under one history: the pamphlet gives every rule as of its own date, and the court's annual packages give the rules amended since, each under the Supreme Court order naming the day it took effect. Ask for Civil Rule 16 as of 2025-11-30 and you get the pamphlet text; ask as of 2025-12-01 and you get the amendment.
The thirteen courts of appeals keep their own rules and internal operating procedures — cir7-32 is 7th Cir. R. 32, cir11-iop-32-1 an 11th Circuit IOP. The district courts keep local rules under their own numbering, and the key follows the court: flmd-lr1.08, cacd-lr7-11, cand-civlr3-11. Ninety-four districts publish ninety-four ways; the ones we carry are carried whole, and the ones we do not are absent rather than approximated.
Worked
A national rule, a circuit rule, and the local rule that overrides both.
(5) Typeface. Either a proportionally spaced or a monospaced face may be used. (A) A proportionally spaced face must include serifs, but sans-serif type may be used in headings and captions. A proportionally spaced face must be 14-point or larger. (B) A monospaced face may not contain more than 10½ characters per inch.
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- Fed. R. App. P. 32
- catchline
- Form of Briefs, Appendices, and Other Papers
- status
- active
- validFrom → validTo
- 2024-12-01 → present
- topics
- ["format"]
- provenance.sourceSystem
- uscourts.gov
- provenance.retrievedAt
- 2026-09-03
topics: ["format"] marks a rule the filing-format registry has read into structured requirements. That is the only value topics takes today.
check this record →(a) A brief need not comply with the portion of Fed. R. App. P. 32(a)(3) requiring it to "lie reasonably flat when open"…
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- 7th Cir. R. 32
- catchline
- Form of a Brief
- provenance.sourceSystem
- uscourts.gov
- provenance.contentHash
- d6c23669b676ec5e898bb6a1fd97e3e840946d6bd47cd41d455e71a2aeba60dc
(a) TYPOGRAPHY REQUIREMENTS. … Main Text: At least 13-point, 2.0 double-spaced · Footnote: At least 11-point, single-spaced · Typeface: Book Antiqua, Calisto MT, Century Schoolbook, Georgia, Palatino. (b) ANOTHER PERMISSIBLE TYPEFACE. Times New Roman is permitted if the main text is at least 14-point…
- citation.display
- M.D. Fla. L.R. 1.08
- catchline
- Form of a Pleading, Motion, or Other Paper
- validFrom → validTo
- 2025-11-01 → present
- provenance.sourceSystem
- www.flmd.uscourts.gov
- provenance.versionLabel
- fed-district-2026-09-18
A local rule, not a national one — and the reason the format registry exists. Times New Roman is legal in this district only at 14-point, and only because subsection (b) says so.
check this record →/v1/law/format
Typeface, margins and length limits — as data, per court.
The rule text alone does not stop a drafting agent getting it wrong. This registry exists because one of ours did: a Florida appellate petition was certified “in Times New Roman 14-point” when Fla. R. App. P. 9.045(b) allows only Arial 14 or Bookman Old Style 14. The rule was carried. Nothing served the requirement as something a checker could compare a filing against.
So each record is binding.law's reading of the rules that govern one court's filings — and every number in it quotes the words it was read from:
Circuit Rule 32(b): "A brief is acceptable if proportionally spaced type is 12 points or larger in the body of the brief, and 11 points or larger in footnotes."
A record pins the content hash of every rule it was read from. When a pinned rule changes, the record comes back stale: true with the reason, rather than serving a superseded reading as current. It is a reading of the rules, not the rules — so it names the rules it read and tells you to check them before you certify anything.
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- us-cir7
- court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- level
- intermediate-appellate
- coverage
- specified
- typeface.allowed
- any-serif
- typeface.monospaced
- { allowed: true, maxCharsPerInch: 10.5 }
- minSizePt
- 12
- footnoteMinSizePt
- 11
- lineSpacing
- double
- margins
- { all: 1 }
- paperSize
- letter
- limits[0]
- { document: "principal brief", pages: 30, words: 14000, basis: "pages-or-words" }
- governingRuleKey
- cir7-32
- ruleKeys
- ["frap-32", "cir7-32", "cir7-28.1", "cir7-29", "cir7-28", "cir7-31"]
- stale
- false — every pinned rule still hashes the same
The Seventh Circuit relaxes FRAP's 14-point floor to 12 and raises the word limit from 13,000 to 14,000. It does not touch the serif requirement or the 10½-characters-per-inch cap on a monospaced face, and the record says which rule each of those came from.
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38 jurisdictions carry court rules
Read from /v1/law/coverage as this page rendered, so it cannot drift from what the API serves. The corpus last read its sources on 2026-09-25, and re-reads them weekly.