When must an agency propose a judgment after an opinion directs partial enforcement?

Read the actual filed opinion and confirm that it directs judgment enforcing the agency order in part.

Verify the opinion’s filing date.

Prepare a proposed judgment that conforms to the opinion.

Distinguish the agency’s proposal from any competing party proposal and later court settlement.

1. Establish the scoped procedure and actual filing event.
2. Exclude that filing day.
3. Count 14 calendar days.
4. Check final-day holidays, inaccessibility and applicable directions.

Exclude the verified filing day and count every calendar day under FRAP 26(a)(1). If the final day is Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday, continue to the next open day. Check actual inaccessibility and any applicable order.

FRAP 26(a)(6) includes the listed federal holidays and holidays declared by the President or Congress. For a period after an event it also includes applicable state holidays, including the state of the circuit clerk’s principal office. Establish the actual circuit and applicable calendar for this agency proceeding. The national calculator does not infer additional state holidays, inaccessibility or granted relief.

These clocks start from filing rather than service. Rule 26(c) does not add three days merely because a copy of the triggering paper was served.

Fictitious example

In a fictitious scoped proceeding, the court files an opinion directing partial enforcement of the agency order on July 6, 2026. Exclude July 6 and count 14 calendar days. July 20, 2026 is the assumed open final day, with no extra state holiday, inaccessibility or different court direction.

Fictitious dates. Assume this national procedure applies with no extra holiday, inaccessibility or different direction. The calculation does not establish jurisdiction, intervention leave or accepted filing and service.

Partial enforcement direction

The first sentence of Rule 19 addresses an opinion directing entry of judgment enforcing the agency order in part. This is not a universal period after any agency opinion.

Conforming proposal and both acts

The agency must file with the clerk and serve every other party a proposed judgment conforming to the opinion within the applicable period.

Competing proposal is separate

Rule 19 separately addresses a disagreeing party’s ten-day competing proposal. This calculator does not determine that response’s starting facts or add it automatically.

Court settles and directs entry

The court settles the judgment and directs entry without further hearing or argument. The agency’s draft is not itself the entered judgment.

Actual extension

Check Rule 26(b), current circuit requirements and actual orders. A requested extension does not establish a new date.

• This guide does not establish current statutory review jurisdiction, a petition-for-review statutory period or entitlement to intervention.
• Confirm actual circuit-local requirements and case orders before completing filing and service.

• Verify the actual filed opinion and partial-enforcement direction.
• Prepare a judgment conforming to that opinion.
• File the proposed judgment with the circuit clerk.
• Serve every other party and preserve service evidence.
• Distinguish any competing proposal, court settlement and later judgment entry.
• Electronic court-of-appeals filing ends at midnight in the circuit clerk’s principal-office time zone under FRAP 26(a)(4)(B). Ordinary paper filing requires circuit-clerk receipt and ends at scheduled office closure. The brief/appendix dispatch exception does not itself cover these answers, motions or proposed judgments. Represented persons ordinarily file electronically under Rule 25. Confirm current local instructions, permitted channels, separate required service and actual inaccessibility.