What is it?

This system provides you the opportunity to receive automatic e-mail notification of certain events taking place in your 5th Circuit appeals. In brief, we send you an e-mail notifying you when we:

1. Issue a briefing notice;
2. File and rule on motions to extend the time to file a brief, or to suspend briefing times;
3. File briefs;
4. File and act on a petition for rehearing.

Here is a complete listing of the notification events.

You receive the publicly available docket text for these events from our automated case processing system. Here is a sample notification. This is the ONLY information you receive. You still have to access PACERNET to view the entire docket sheet. For those events where we normally send you a paper document, e.g. a briefing notice, you will still receive that paper notice.

You will save time and money by not having to check your case's status on PACERNET, and will not have to call our office to see if we have filed your or your opponent's brief, to find out when your briefing time begins to run, or if a rehearing petition has been filed, etc. This service is designed to benefit you and our office. If however, we find that we are expending more resources by operating the event notification system because we receive more telephone calls or electronic messages, etc. we will discontinue the service.

The service is free.

1. 1. Be a member of the 5th Circuit Bar;
2. 2. Have provided us your current e-mail address;
3. 3. Sign up by clicking on the link below and filling out the required information, or by going to our website and clicking on the "event notification" link. Note, that you can elect to start the service now, delay receiving the service, but be left on our invitation list, or elect not to participate and be removed from our invitation list. You can also change your e-mail address and this will change it throughout our automated system. 

You can discontinue the service at any time by selecting the event notification link on our website, entering your social security number, and then selecting the either of the options that de-register you from the service.