In this episode, hosts Todd Smith and Jody Sanders share their list of crowdsourced “pet issues” that appellate courts could address to make practitioners’ lives easier. Their goals, Todd explains, are to both identify areas for improvement and also to give them an opportunity to flesh out those topics in later episodes. If you’re a practitioner with thoughts about everything from modernizing the outdated civil docketing statement to standardizing sealed record procedures to adding a cross-appeal rule, chances are that Todd and Jody have thoughts, too. Tune in as they break down issues and suggest possible solutions. “If any judges, rules committee people, anybody ever wants to come on and talk about these, please let us know,” Jody says. “We would love to have other perspectives on it.”
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- 0:00 – Intro: Flipping the Script on Appellate Practice
- 1:08 – Not a Festivus Episode (But Maybe Close)
- 2:24 – Updating the Civil Docketing Statement Process
- 8:32 – Sealed Records & Rule 76a Challenges on Appeal
- 10:57 – Supreme Court Transparency & Internal Operating Procedures
- 15:59 – Standardizing Clerk & Reporter Record Costs
- 19:15 – Should Texas Adopt a Cross-Appeal Rule?
- 23:57 – Rethinking Appellate Briefing Deadlines & Extensions
- 39:01 – Issue Grants & Pre-Oral Argument Topic Notices
- 49:56 – The One-Sentence Mandamus Denial Problem
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