PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, effective Sept. 24, 2001, the Court hereby adopts an interim amendment to Local Rule 36(b)(2)(F). The interim amendment is in response to West Group’s announced intention to provide in print format the full text of federal court of appeals decisions that have not been selected for publication.

This court’s advisory committee will be considering whether this or some other solution should be adopted on a permanent basis. However, for the present, the interim amendment makes clear that when this court’s unpublished opinions appear in the new West’s Federal Appendix, they continue to be unpublished opinions for purposes of our current ban on citing unpublished opinions (except in related cases).

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2071(e), the Court has determined that there is an immediate need for this interim amendment. The Court hereby invites public comments on the amendment. Comments should be submitted by Oct. 24, 2001 and addressed to:

Office of the Clerk
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
United States Courthouse
1 Courthouse Way, Suite 2500
Boston, Massachusetts 02210

September 24, 2001

Unpublished opinions of this court may be cited in filings with or arguments to this court only in related cases. Otherwise only published opinions may be cited. A published opinion is one that appears in the ordinary West Federal Reporter series (not including West’s Federal Appendix) or as a recent opinion intended to be so published. All slip opinions released by the clerk’s office are intended to be so published unless they bear the legend "Not For Publication" or some comparable phraseology.

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