Opinion
Delivered March 27, 1995
Rule 4-1(a) of the Rules of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals is hereby amended to read as follows:
(a) BRIEFS — SIZE — PAPER — TYPE. All briefs shall be type written or produced with computer or word processing equipment. Briefs shall be of uniform size on opaque, unglazed 8 1/2" x 11" white paper and firmly bound on the left hand margin by staples or other binding devices. If staples are used, they should be covered by tape. Briefs shall be double-spaced, except for quoted material, which may be single-spaced and indented. Footnote lines, except quotations, shall be double-spaced. Use of footnotes is not encouraged, and they should be used sparingly. Carbon copies are not acceptable, but copies produced by offset printing, positive photocopy, or other dry photoduplicating process which produces a clearly legible black-on-white reproduction may be used. Each page shall be numbered, and both sides of the page may be used. The margin at the top, outer edge, and bottom of each page shall be not less than one inch, and the margin at the binding edge shall be wide enough to allow the text to be read easily. The style of print shall be either mono-spaced, measured in characters per inch, not to exceed 10 characters per inch, or produced in a proportional serif font, measured in point sizes, not to be less than 12 points. Commercial organizations or members of the bar maintaining equipment for duplicating may submit to the Clerk samples for prior approval. If the Clerk is satisfied that such duplicating process will produce documents which conform to the specifications of this Rule, it will be approved.
This rule shall apply to all briefs submitted on or after April 10, 1995.