alt Hacker NewsSome courts publish word processing templates for briefs; for example, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/court-forms-fees/brief-template...
The Eighth Circuit gets really into this, publishing a typography guide for lawyers: https://federalcourt.press/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Eighth...
Judges, particularly appellate judges, spend a lot of their time reading briefs. So, as you can see, some of them have strong opinions about brief typography. (Judges, as a group, have strong opinions about lots of things).
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"The briefs, opinions of the district courts, essential parts of the appendices, and other required reading add up to about 1,000 pages per argument session. Reading that much is a chore; remembering it is even harder."
That is a lot of reading. Depending on how long an 'argument session' is, retaining the detail must be a challenge.
Indeed. I think what I'm imagining is something like Typst for courts and lawyers.
Imagine if, nationwide, we lawyers could draft in plain text and never (or rarely) have to worry about court-specific typesetting rules or wrestling with Word!
I just read the complete Eighth Circuit guide and found it to an excellent reference. Thank you for the link.