Local Rule 31.0: Filing Briefs
Local Rules and Internal Operating Procedures of the First Circuit — Title VII. General Provisions
(a) Time to File a Brief.
(1) Briefing schedules will be set in accordance with Fed. R. App. P. 31(a) once the record is complete, including any necessary transcripts. When a brief (and addendum required by Local Rule 28.0) is filed electronically in compliance with the court’s electronic filing system, the court will review the electronic filing and notify the filer of the due date for the paper copies of the brief. A reply brief may be rejected by the court if it contains matter repetitive of the main brief, or which, in the opinion of the court, should have been in the main brief.
(2) Unavailability of the transcript shall constitute cause for granting extensions, subject, however, to the provisions of Local Rule 10.0, ante.
(b) Number of copies. Only 10 copies of briefs need be filed with the clerk and on motion for cause shown, parties may be allowed to file even fewer copies. The disk required by Local Rule 32.0 for briefs filed in paper form constitutes one copy for purposes of this rule. If a brief is filed electronically in compliance with the court’s electronic filing system, the electronically filed brief counts as one copy and nine paper copies must be filed.