Why isn the court accepting electronic briefs and records on appeal?
Efforts are underway to implement new software in the district courts and bankruptcy courts to permit appellate court filers to create hyperlinks in their documents to district and bankruptcy court records. This development will eventually permit filers to create an electronic version of the appeal brief which contains hyperlinks to trial court records and transcripts. When this software is in place the court will reevaluate its procedures and policies concerning briefs and records on appeal. In the meantime, attorneys should continue to prepare and file three copies of the joint or separate appendix as the record on appeal. Ten paper copies of briefs must be filed, together with an diskette or CD-ROM containing a PDF version of the full brief. See 8th Cir. Rule 28A.
