When may a court-authorized deferred appendix be filed?

Read the court rule or actual order authorizing deferred preparation.

Verify service of the appellee’s brief and actual delivery conditions.

Distinguish deferred designation at brief service from the ordinary record-filing designation.

Read the selected record or appendix citation procedure and actual directions.

1. Identify the exact required act and controlling procedure.
2. Establish service method and actual delivery facts.
3. Apply any Rule 26(c) addition after base-period expiry.
4. Read actual orders and complete the required filing and service.

Establish actual service and delivery facts. FRAP 26(c) adds three days after the base period otherwise expires under Rule 26(a), unless the paper was served electronically or delivered on the date stated in proof of service. Count the added days and apply final-day rollover. This isolated preset does not collect these facts or calculate the addition.

FRAP 26(a)(6) includes the listed federal holidays and days declared holidays by the President or Congress. For periods after an event, it also includes holidays declared by the state of the district court that rendered the challenged judgment or order, or the circuit clerk’s principal office. Establish the actual applicable calendar. The national preset does not infer additional state holidays, actual inaccessibility or granted relief.

The isolated twenty-one-day preset neither establishes deferral authorization nor implements the possible Rule 26(c) service addition. No computed date or paid calculation record is published.

Court authorization

The court must provide deferral by rule for a class of cases or order in the particular case. The calculator does not grant or infer that permission.

Changed designation timing

Under Rule 30(c)(1), a party designates the record parts it wants in the appendix when it serves its brief and need not include an issues statement.

Service-dependent addition

The twenty-one-day reference runs after appellee-brief service. Rule 26(c) requires actual service and delivery facts for any added days.

References and later copies

Rule 30(c)(2) distinguishes record-page citations from an election to replace or supplement them with appendix-page references after filing.

• This guide does not read local instructions, infer service or delivery, select appendix contents or establish a granted extension.
• A rule-based date does not establish accepted filing, separate service or entitlement to relief.

• Verify the actual deferral authorization.
• Identify appellee-brief service and delivery evidence.
• Review any added days and actual court direction.
• Complete the changed designation duties.
• Prepare and file the appendix with separate required service and proof.
• Electronic court-of-appeals filing ends at midnight in the circuit clerk’s principal-office time zone under FRAP 26(a)(4)(B), unless a different applicable time controls. Ordinary paper filing requires clerk receipt by scheduled closure. Rule 25(a)(2)(A)(ii) has a separate timely mailing or qualifying dispatch exception for briefs and appendices; it does not automatically cover motions or replies. Read actual local instructions, permitted channels, service proof and inaccessibility.