Appendix to Brief
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
(a) Appendix to Brief: Separate Filing. Except as provided in subdivision (b), an appendix to a brief shall be filed as a separate document from the brief. (b) Volume One of Appellant’s Appendix. Volume one of an appellant’s multi- volume appendix must consist only of (1) the notice of appeal, (2) the judgment, order, or decree from which the appeal is taken, (3) any findings, conclusions, or opinions relevant to the appeal, and (4) any order granting a certificate of direct appeal.
Volume one of the appellant’s appendix shall be attached to the appellant’s brief, but the content shall not count towards the page or type volume limitations on the brief. (c) Hyperlinks. In addition to an electronic appendix, hyperlinks to the appendix may be added to the brief. If hyperlinks are used, the brief must also contain immediately preceding the hyperlink a reference to the paper appendix page.
Hyperlinks to testimony must be to a transcript. A motion must be filed and granted seeking permission to hyperlink to an audio or video file before such links may be included in the brief or appendix. Hyperlinks may not be used to link to sealed or restricted documents. (d) Documents Sealed in the Bankruptcy Court.
Records sealed in the bankruptcy court are sealed on appeal without the need for filing an additional motion to seal. Sealed documents must be in a separate volume, filed under a separate docket entry as sealed documents, and listed in the table of contents of the appendix as sealed documents. -66- Local Rule 9001-1 Definitions “Clerk’s Service List” means the list maintained by the Clerk as required under L.B.R. 2002-2. “Document” means any paper submitted to the court in a case under the Code. “Matrix List of Creditors” means the list of the name and complete address of each creditor in a case in a format designated by the Clerk that is filed by a debtor as required under L.B.R. 1007-2(d).
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