RULE 1.143 BRIEFS

After the notice of completion of the record on appeal is filed, both sides have deadlines to submit their written arguments to the court. The person appealing the case (the appellant) has 15 days to file their main brief, called the Brief-in-chief. This document lays out their arguments for why the case should be decided in their favor.

The other side (the appellee) then has 15 days after that to file an Answer Brief responding to those arguments. Once the Answer Brief is filed, the appellant gets one more chance to respond with a Reply Brief, which must be filed within 10 days.

All of these briefs need to follow the formatting and content rules set out in Rules 1.10 and 1.11. These rules cover things like how the briefs should look and what information they need to include. Missing these deadlines or formatting rules can cause problems with your appeal, so it is important to keep track of the timeline.