A retirement celebration for Justice Robert D. Rucker will take place on Monday, May 8 at 12:30 p.m. EDT in the Supreme Court Courtroom.

The United States Supreme Court dismissed two appeals set for oral argument because petitioners "persuaded [the court] to grant certiorari" on one issue but "chose to rely on a different argument" in their brief.

New for 2017: take a look at this video message from section chair Carol Nemeth Joven and get an idea of what you can expect from the Appellate Practice Section this year.

The Section of Litigation has its own Amicus Curiae Briefs Committee, which stands ready to help you through the process of obtaining ABA amicus support for your appeal.

The Indianapolis Bar Association's Appellate Practice Section has made a monetary contribution in memory of former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Roger O. DeBruler, who died on February 13, 2017 at age 82.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit handed down an opinion that interpreted the phrase “The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution” to group “packing for shipment or distribution” together rather than as the last two items in the list.

As appellate practitioners, we continuously strive to improve our legal writing and find ways to tighten up our prose. In a column for the ABA Journal, Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary, offers a “blacklist” of words “that do nothing but blemish the documents that contain them.”

Indianapolis will play host to this year’s joint Annual Meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and the Annual Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference on April 30 through May 2 at the J.W. Marriott Hotel. This Bench-Bar meeting is a gathering of federal practitioners and all federal judges from across the Seventh Circuit to discuss important topics related to practice in and business of the federal courts.

Keep up with Appellate Practice Section happenings: take a look at February's message from section chair, Carol Nemeth Joven.

Justice Rucker's retirement has just been announced, and the Indiana Supreme Court will be accepting applications to fill his seat.