AnnouncementsPursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1913, the Judicial Conference of the United States has approved a new fee for copies of records in electronic form when those records are neither stored in CM/ECF nor available on PACER. The new fee will become effective September 1, 2018. An updated and expanded fee schedule is available on our website.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is pleased to announce that it is sitting in Chicago, Illinois as part of its October 2018 session. The Federal Circuit will also hold its regular session in Washington, D.C. Additional details are available here.
The Clerk’s Office has released updated electronic filing procedures (version 2.1). A new version of these procedures and the filing events and reliefs list are available here.
In addition to the court’s website and PACER, electronic opinions issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are now available through the U.S. Government Publishing Office. By joining this judiciary-wide initiative, the Federal Circuit is providing access and text-searchable functionality to all of its electronic opinions issued since the court went live with electronic filing in 2012.
Electronic filing will be unavailable due to planned maintenance from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm EDT, Wednesday, August 1, 2018. We regret any inconvenience.