United States Court of Appeals
for the
 Fifth Circuit
Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge



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United States Court of Appeals Fee Chart

Fee Schedule Effective December 1, 2020
Acceptable forms of payment are cash1, credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express), checks2, travelers checks, or money orders made payable to Clerk, U.S. Courts, for all fees except those Attorney Admissions related (those must be made electronically).

Court of Appeal Docketing Fees

Notice of Appeal including Filing Fee (Paid in the District Court) $505.00
Original Proceeding/Petition for Review (Paid in the Court of Appeals) $500.00
Direct Bankruptcy Appeal, when allowed, see Item 14 of the 
Bankruptcy Court Miscellaneous Fee Schedule
 
Reproduction, Retrieval, Search, and Copy Fees
 Copies & Reproduction of Documents (paper)  $0.50 per page
 Reproduction & Transmission of an Electronic Record Stored Outside of ECF (any format) $32.00
 Record Search $32.00
 Record Retrieval (First Box) $64.00
 Record Retrieval (Each Additional Box) $39.00
 Electronic Record Retrieval3 $19.90 + $0.65 per page
 Appeal Record Reproduction $89.00
 Audio Recording $31.00
 
Attorney Admission-Related Fees*

*Must be submitted electronically,
see Attorney Information tab at the home page
 Attorney Admission (comprised of $188 national fee and $50 local fee) $238.00
 Attorney Renewal (Every 5 years) $50.00
 Duplicate Certificate of Admission $20.00
 Certificate of Good Standing $20.00
 
Other Fees
 Certification of Documents $11.00
 Issuance of an Apostille         $47.00
 Payment Returned or Denied for Insufficient Funds $53.00
 Video Conferencing of Oral Arguments $200.00

 
For further explanation of fees, see the Court of Appeals Miscellaneous Fee Schedule, promulgated by the Judicial Conference and authorized by 28 U.S.C. 1913.

Photocopy Requests

Remotely
The public can remotely access any case document, docket sheet, or case-specific report via PACER for $0.10 per page, not to exceed the fee for 30 pages. The 30 page limit does not apply to electronic access to transcripts and non-case specific reports via PACER (such as reports obtained from the PACER Case Locator or docket activity reports). Electronic access to an audio file of a court hearing is also available via PACER for $2.40 per audio file. By Judicial Conference policy, no fee is owed for electronic access to court data or audio files via PACER until an account holder accrues charges of more than $30.00 in a quarterly billing cycle, effectively making the service free for most users. PACER is available to anyone who registers for an account. Please go to http://www.pacer.gov to register.
In Person
You may come to the court and request copies of electronic documents at a cost of $0.50 per page. We accept cash, credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express), checks, travelers checks, or money orders made payable to Clerk, U.S. Courts.
Written Request 
You may mail a written request and a photocopy fee of $0.50 per page in the form of a check, travelers check, or money order made payable to Clerk, U.S. Courts. Please include the case name, case number, and the title of the documents which you wish to have photocopied. In addition, please include your name, address, and telephone number. Mail your request to Clerk's Office USCA, Mail Remittance, 600 S. Maestri Pl., New Orleans, LA 70130. 
Obtaining Page Counts 
If you wish to obtain photocopies of court documents, but do not know the number of pages, call (504)310-7700 and a member of the Clerk's office will give you a page count. Please have the case number, case title, and description of document ready when you call.  

1 Cash paying customers must have exact change.
2 Notice to Customers Presenting Checks
When you provide a check as payment, you authorize us either to use information from your check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account, or to process the payment as a check transaction. For inquiries, please call (504)310-7805. 
Privacy Act – A Privacy Act Statement required by 5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3) stating our authority for soliciting and collecting the information from your check, and explaining the purposes and routine uses which will be made of your check information, is available at (http://www.fms.treas.gov/otcnet/index.html), or call toll free at (1-866-945-7920) to obtain a copy by mail. Furnishing the check information is voluntary, but a decision not to do so may require you to make payment by some other method.
3 Effective June 1, 2016, this service includes $10 Judiciary administrative fee and two additional Federal Record Center (FRC) fees:  (A) $9.90 flat rate fee to pull and refile the record(s) and (B) $0.65 per page fee.  The FRC fees are subject to change in accordance with the Inter-Agency Agreement between the AO and the FRC.

 

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