Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure
A. Applicability of Rules
Rule 1 - Scope and Construction of Rules
Rule 2 - Suspension of Rules
B. Appeal as of Right
Rule 3 - Appeal as of Right: Availability; Method of Initiation
Rule 4 - Appeal as of Right; Time for Filing Notice of Appeal
Rule 5 - Appeal as of Right; Service of Notice of Appeal; Docketing of the Appeal
Rule 6 - Security for Costs on Appeal
Rule 7 - Stay or Injunction Pending Appeal
Rule 8 - Release in Criminal Cases
Rule 8A - Appeal as of Right in Termination of Parental Rights Cases
C. Appeal by Permission
Rule 9 - Interlocutory Appeal by Permission from the Trial Court
Rule 10 - Extraordinary Appeal by Permission on Original Application in the Appellate Court
Rule 11 - Appeal by Permission from Appellate Court to Supreme Court
D. Direct Appellate Review of Administrative Proceedings
Rule 12 - Direct Review of Administrative Proceedings by the Court of Appeals
E. Practice on Appeal
Rule 13 - Scope of Review
Rule 14 - Consideration of Post-Judgment Facts in the Appellate Court
Rule 15 - Voluntary Dismissal
Rule 16 - Joint and Consolidated Appeals
Rule 17 - Transfer of Cases Appealed to the Wrong Court
Rule 18 - Appeals by Poor Persons
Rule 19 - Substitution, Addition and Dropping of Parties
Rule 20 - Filing and Service of Papers
Rule 20A - Facsimile Filing
Rule 21 - Computation and Extension of Time
Rule 22 - Motions
Rule 23 - Duty of Clerk to Give Notice of Filed Orders
F. The Record on Appeal
Rule 24 - Content and Preparation of the Record
Rule 25 - Completion and Transmission of the Record
Rule 26 - Filing of the Record
G. Briefs
Rule 27 - Content of Briefs
Rule 28 - Optional Appendix to the Briefs
Rule 29 - Filing and Service of Briefs
Rule 30 - Form of Briefs and Other Papers
Rule 31 - Brief and Oral Argument of an Amicus Curiae
Rule 32 - Notice to Attorney General When Validity of Statute, Rule or
Regulation is Questioned
H. Hearing of Appeals
Rule 33 - Prehearing Conference
Rule 34 - (Reserved)
Rule 35 - Conduct of Oral Argument
I. Disposition of Appeals
Rule 36 - Relief; Effect of Error
Rule 37 - (Reserved)
Rule 38 - Entry of Judgment; Copies of Opinion and Judgment
Rule 39 - Rehearing
Rule 40 - Costs
Rule 41 - Interest on Judgments
Rule 42 - Issuance, Stay and Recall of Mandates from the Appellate Court
Rule 43 - Filing of Mandate in the Trial Court and Proceedings Thereafter
Rule 44 - Process in the Appellate Court
J. Rules by the Intermediate Appellate Courts
Rule 45 - Rules by the Court of Appeals and the Court of Criminal Appeals
Rule 46 - (Reserved)
K. Title; Forms; Effective Date
Rule 47 - Title Rule 48 Forms
Rule 49 - Effective Date
Appendix A: Forms
Form 1 - Notice of Appeal
Form 2 - Petition for Direct Appellate Review of Administrative Proceedings