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