Announcements

As of 1:00 p.m. (EDT) on June 1, 2020, the Clerk's Office will be temporarily inaccessible for submitting paper filings, mail and courier deliveries, and night box submissions.  See Fed. R. App. P. 26(a). 

Electronic case filing remains available through CM/ECF and electronic filing deadlines remain in effect.  Paper filings and submissions due on June 1, 2020, will be deemed as timely filed if received by the next day the court is open to the public.   The Clerk’s Office will continue to provide services consistent with our previously announced modifications to public assistance.

As part of the Federal Circuit's efforts to continue court operations in response to ongoing public health emergencies and to provide greater predictability to counsel appearing before this court, the court has directed that in-person arguments have been suspended until further notice.  Cases set for argument after the June 2020 session will be argued telephonically unless counsel is notified by separate order that oral argument is unnecessary.  The Clerk's Office will otherwise continue scheduling cases on the court's calendar under existing procedures.  The full administrative order issued today, May 18, 2020, is available on the court's website (link).