Handbook XII.E: Notice of Decisions
D.C. Circuit Rules — Handbook, Part XII. Making the Decision
When an order or judgment is entered in a case assigned to the Court’s electronic filing system, the Clerk’s Office electronically transmits a Notice of Docket Activity to all parties who have consented to electronic service, and mails notice and a copy of any opinion or judgment to parties who are not electronic filers. See D.C. Cir. Rules 36(b), 45(d). Members of the bar should call the Clerk's attention to typographical or other errors in slip opinions.
The Clerk’s Office typically releases opinions on Tuesdays and Fridays beginning at 10:00 a.m. However, a panel can direct the release of an opinion at any other time. Opinions are added to the Court’s website, in PDF format, soon after they are publicly released, and may be accessed from a computer terminal in the public area of the Clerk’s Office. An archive of past opinions issued since September 1997 is also available on the Court’s website.
Although certain decisions are not published, all unsealed judgments and memoranda are available to the public upon proper application to the Clerk’s Office, and those issued since June 2000 are posted on the Court’s website.