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11th Cir. R. 26.1-3 — CIP: Form: the court's own rule, verbatim from UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS for the ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT RULES INTERNAL OPERATING PROCEDURES (effective August 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies to appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit alongside the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
(a) The CIP must list persons (last name first) and entities in alphabetical order, have only one column, and be double-spaced. (b) A corporate entity must be identified by its full corporate name as registered with a secretary of state’s office and, if its stock is publicly listed, its stock (“ticker”) symbol must be provided after the corporate name. If no publicly traded company or corporation has an interest in the outcome of the case or appeal, a statement certifying to that effect must be included at the end of the CIP and must be entered into the web-based CIP. (c) At the top of each page, the court of appeals docket number and short style must be noted (name of first-listed plaintiff or petitioner v. name of first-listed defendant or respondent). Each page of the CIP must be separately sequentially numbered to indicate the total number of pages comprising the CIP (e.g., C-1 of 3, C-2 of 3, C-3 of 3). These pages do not count against any length limitations imposed on the papers filed. (d) When being included in a document, the CIP must immediately follow the cover page within a brief, and must precede the text in a petition, answer, motion, response, or reply.
(a) The CIP must list persons (last name first) and entities in alphabetical order, have only one column, and be double-spaced. (b) A corporate entity must be identified by its full corporate name as registered with a secretary of state’s office and, if its stock is publicly list