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