United States · Federal civil appeal timing

When must I file the notice after civil appeal time is reopened?

When the district court actually reopens time under FRAP 4(a)(6), the reopened period runs fourteen days after entry of that order. This is the notice-filing period, not the deadline for seeking reopening. Independently establish the qualifying order and statutory conditions before using the preset.

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Period: Fourteen calendar days after actual reopening-order entry
Trigger: Actual entry of a qualifying Rule 4(a)(6) reopening order
Rule: FRAP 4(a)(6)

Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure

December 1, 2025 compilation

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Actual entry of a qualifying Rule 4(a)(6) reopening order

Use actual entry of an order reopening under Rule 4(a)(6), not judgment entry, notice receipt, motion filing or an ordinary extension grant.

Entry rules and timing exceptions

14 days from Entry of the district court's order reopening the time to appeal

Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(6)Binding

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Which events control this procedure?

Identify an actual order reopening time under Rule 4(a)(6).

Use its entry date. Do not substitute when the order was signed, served or received.

Ordinary thirty-day or qualifying sixty-day appeal periods do not replace this reopened fourteen-day period.

FRAP 4(a)(6)

How is the 14-day period counted?

Establish the qualifying reopening order independently.
Exclude its actual entry day.
Count fourteen calendar days.
Check the final day and complete district notice filing.

Exclude actual reopening-order entry and count fourteen calendar days under FRAP 26(a). Carry a closed final day forward. The preset does not decide whether reopening was valid or whether the notice is otherwise sufficient.

FRAP 26(a) excludes the triggering day, counts intermediate calendar days and carries a final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday forward. Rule 26(a)(6) includes federal holidays, President or Congress declared holidays and, for forward periods, state-declared holidays where the challenged district court or circuit clerk’s principal office is located. Check actual state holidays, inaccessibility and any different prescribed time.

FRAP 26(a)(4)–(6), (b) and (c)

What does the scoped calculation show?

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. Actual entry of a qualifying Rule 4(a)(6) reopening order is independently established on 2026-07-06. No extra holiday, inaccessibility or unresolved starting event is assumed. Fourteen days after July 6 reaches assumed open July 20.

Example counting steps
Step	What is counted	Date
Trigger	Actual entry of a qualifying Rule 4(a)(6) reopening order	July 6, 2026
Count	14 calendar days after the established event	July 20, 2026

Example resultMonday, July 20, 2026

Fictitious facts. The example establishes the starting event separately and assumes no extra holiday or inaccessible clerk.

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Which conditions require separate review?

Actual reopening required: A motion requesting reopening is not a grant. Establish the order, its entry and the qualifying procedure separately.
Federal party: The ordinary qualifying federal-party sixty-day period does not replace Rule 4(a)(6)’s reopened fourteen-day period.
Erroneous longer order: Hamer discusses Bowles’s statutory fourteen-day reopening limit despite an erroneous seventeen-day order. Do not assume an incorrect longer grant cures a missed statutory deadline.

FRAP 4(a)(6)

This page does not grant relief, establish appellate entitlement or decide disputed case facts.
This scoped calculator establishes neither the validity of reopening nor notice sufficiency.

What must I verify before filing?

Preserve the actual qualifying reopening order and entry.
Prepare the required notice rather than another reopening motion.
Check special inmate or mistaken-circuit-filing conditions separately.
Complete district filing within the qualified reopened period.
These motions and civil notices belong in the district court, not the circuit clerk’s office. FRAP 26(a)(4)(A) uses midnight in the district court’s time zone for electronic district filing unless another time is prescribed. FRAP 26(a)(4)(D) ends ordinary paper filing at the scheduled clerk closing. Subsection (C) separately addresses specified dispatch and mailing methods. FRCP 5(d) addresses motion delivery and electronic filing; check district local instructions and required service. For a notice, independently check FRAP 4(c)’s inmate conditions or Rule 4(d)’s mistaken circuit filing. Mailing alone does not establish ordinary district receipt.

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