The Appellate Record Blog: Nerdlaw: Kill All The Typewriter Rules (Part Deux)

In the last post on this topic, I advanced the modest proposal of completely redoing all the briefing rules.

• Chuck double spacing.
• Chuck one inch margins
• Chuck page limits
• Adopt word counts instead of page limits

This drew a comment or two on Linked in and other places to the effect that the rules probably got this way in the interest of making briefs easy to read.

What could be easier to read than humongous fonts on a double-spaced page, right?

Not so! After the jump, you'll find out why our briefing rules would not survive a Daubert objection if readability were the goal upholding them.

So, what's the big deal about half-inch margins, double spacing and ginourmous fonts?