Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader approved an updated list of fonts for filings in the Maryland Supreme Court and Appellate Court. (Submitted Photo) For the first time in more than 26 years, Maryland ...

The briefing of an ordinary appeal is a three-step process. The party that is taking the appeal, known as the appellant, gets to file its opening brief arguing why the decision under review should be ...

Now that many of us are still reeling in shock following the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's recent announcement that it has adopted a 5 p.m. electronic filing deadline, even after ...

Should an appellate court provisionally seal a brief until the case is heard on the merits? Or should it try to make a redacted version promptly available? Last year, I wrote about a case in which ...

The U.S. federal judiciary has withdrawn a measure that would have boosted disclosure of who finances friend-of-the-court ...