Information on Submission of Electronic Briefing

See Local Rule 12(g)

To make more information available to the public via the Court's website, the Court requests that written briefs on the merits filed before submission also be submitted electronically on a CD-ROM or as an email attachment addressed to ebrief.10thcoa@courts.state.tx.us.

Searchable PDF is the preferred file format. The preferred form and format for electronically-filed briefs are stated below. Electronic filings will not be considered in determining whether a brief is timely filed under the Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Please submit an electronic copy of each filing in the following form and format when filing the hard copies of any brief:

1. Each efiling should be submitted either by email attachment or on a separate 3-1/2 inch floppy disc or CD.



2. Each email attachment or disc/CD must include information or a label, respectively, that identifies the case name, the docket number, type of filing (i.e. appellant's brief, appellee's brief, brief in reply), 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 or on the Court's Website at http://www.10thcoa.courts.state.tx.us./ebriefs. If submitting an efiling on floppy disc or CD, please enclose a Certificate of Compliance with the disc/CD.



3. If available, the Court prefers the use of searchable PDF filing because files in this format generally may not be altered. If this format is not available to you, please use either Microsoft Word (up to Word 2002 (Word XP)) or WordPerfect version 7 through 12.0. Documents submitted in these versions will be converted to searchable PDF by the Clerk’s office.



4. The email attachment, disc or CD must contain only an electronic copy of the submitted filing. The email attachment or disc/CD must not contain any document or material that is not included in the original hard copy of the filing with the Court.



5. The email attachment, disc or CD must be free of viruses or any other files that would be disruptive to the Court's computer system.



6. If submitting an efiling as an email attachment at the time the brief is filed, please advise the Clerk's office in your transmittal letter accompanying hard copies; please send efilings to ebrief.10thcoa@courts.state.tx.us.