Submission of Electronic Briefing. For the convenience of the Court, the Court asks, but does not require, that briefs filed in this Court be accompanied by an electronic copy of the brief, submitted as a courtesy to the Court in compliance with the following guidelines:
- (1) The submission of a brief in electronic format (eBrief) is not considered a filing in this Court. Electronic filings will not be considered in determining whether a brief is timely filed under the Rules of Appellate Procedure. Prior to submission of an eBrief, a printed-on-paper brief must have been filed in compliance with the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure that requires a printed original of the brief and four printed copies to be filed with the Court.
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(2) All eBriefs should be submitted either by email attachment addressed to EBrief2nd@txcourts.gov or on a CD.
NOTE: If you are emailing the eBrief and the file size is greater than 20 MB, you will need to separate the document into different files and email each file individually. Please identify each file clearly by labeling the individual parts (e.g. Appendix Part 1, Appendix Part 2, etc.) - (3) Each email attachment or CD must include information or a label, that identifies the case name, the docket number, type of filing (i.e. appellant's brief, appellee's brief, appellant’s reply brief, etc.), and the word-processing software and version used to prepare the brief. If submitting by email, please attach a Certificate of Compliance. A link to the certificate can be found at the bottom of this page. If submitting an eBrief on CD, please enclose a Certificate of Compliance with the CD.
- (4) The Court prefers eBriefs be submitted in a searchable PDF format. If this format is not available to you, please use updated Word Perfect or Word formats.
- (5) The email attachment or CD must contain only an electronic copy of the submitted filing. The email attachment or CD must not contain any document or material that is not included in the original hard copy of the filing with the Court. The CD version of a brief may include hyperlinks to documents that could be included in an appendix but were too voluminous or impracticable to be attached to the hard copy. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.1(j)
- (6) The email attachment or CD must be free of viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits, or any other similar data or files that would be disruptive to the Court’s computer system.
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(7) By submitting your brief electronically, you are consenting to its
publication through the Court’s web page.
– - Certificate of Compliance [pdf] – –
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Updated: 06-Apr-2011
