Format of Electronic Briefs and

Party Appendices; Copies (a) Briefs and party appendices, if any, shall be uploaded together as a text searchable single document. Bookmarks to each section of the brief and to each item included in a party appendix are required. Briefs shall include internal hyperlinks for citations to items included in the party appen- Internal hyperlinks must be clearly distin- dix. guishable from other (e.g., text underlined blue text or highlighted text). Any exter- nal hyperlink included in a brief will be viewed as text only. Visual aids that comply with the guide- lines published on the Judicial Branch website are permitted to be included in the brief. Additional formatting information and recommendations can be found in the guidelines published on the Judi- cial Branch website. in the brief (b) Briefs shall be typed in a 12 point serif font, including footnotes but excluding headings. Head- ings must be in a 14 point serif font. A list of serif fonts can be found in the guidelines published on the Judicial Branch website. Margins shall be 1 and 1/2 inches on all sides. All text must be left aligned. Line spacing can be between 1.3x and 1.5x and must be uniform throughout, including the body of the document, footnotes, and block quotes. Bold face or italic emphasis tools shall be used in place of underlining. Sections shall be marked sequentially using numbers or letters (e.g., 1. Introduction, 2. Statement of the facts . . . 6. Conclusion; or A. Introduction, B. Statement of the facts . . . F. Conclusion). (c) The brief and party appendix, if any, shall include a single pagination scheme that starts on the cover page of the brief and continues through- out the entire document, on every page, including the cover and table of contents for the party appendix through to the last page of the party appendix. The page numbers shall be centered on the bottom of each page and shall be written as ‘‘Page X of XX’’ (e.g., Page 1 of 55 . . . Page 32 of 55 . . . Page 55 of 55). The party appendix shall have an index of the names of witnesses whose testimony is cited within it. Any part of the testimony of a witness that is omitted shall be indicated by asterisks. After giving the name of a witness, the party who called that witness shall be designated, and it shall be stated whether the testimony quoted was given on direct, cross or other examination. (d) Briefs must have a cover page that includes, in the following order, from the top of the page: (1) the name of the court; (2) the appellate docket number; (3) the appellate case name; (4) the nature of the brief (e.g., brief of the defendant- the plaintiff-appellee on the appellant; brief of appeal and of the plaintiff-cross appellant on the cross appeal); and (5) the name, address, tele- phone number and email address of individual counsel who is to argue the appeal and, if differ- ent, the name, address, telephone number and email address of the party’s counsel of record. The foregoing shall be displayed in a 12 point or larger serif font. (e) Counsel of record filing a brief shall file the brief and party appendix, if any, in accordance with guidelines established by the court and pub- lished on the Judicial Branch website. (f) All briefs filed with the Supreme Court or the Appellate Court must be accompanied by a: (1) certification that a copy of the brief and party appendix, if any, has been sent electronically to each counsel of record in compliance with Section 62-7, except for counsel of record exempt from electronic filing pursuant to Section 60-8, to whom a paper copy of the brief and party appendix, if any, must be sent; (2) certification that the brief and party appendix have been redacted or do not contain any names or other personal identifying information that is prohibited from disclosure by rule, statute, court order or case law, unless the brief is filed pursuant to Section 79a-6; and (3) certification of the word count in the brief. (g) Any request for deviation from the above requirements, including requests to deviate from the requirement to redact or omit personal identi- fying information or information that is prohibited from disclosure by rule, statute, court order or case law, shall be filed with the appellate clerk. The request may be submitted in the form of a 480 © Copyrighted by the Secretary of the State of the State of Connecticut RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE