Description | Fee |
Attorney admission fee | $221 (no pro hac vice admissions)
Form: Application for Admission to the Bar |
Certificate of good standing or duplicate admission certificate | $19 to court of appeals clerk
Forms: Certificate of Good Standing, Duplicate Admission Certificate |
Docketing fee for petition for review or petition for mandamus | $500 to court of appeals clerk |
Docketing and filing fee for appeal from district court | $505 to district court clerk |
Docketing appeal from tax court | $500 to tax court clerk |
Docketing petition for permission to appeal | No fee for petition; $505 to district court clerk if permission to appeal granted |
Docketing fee for direct appeal from bankruptcy court | $298 to bankruptcy court clerk for notice of appeal; $207 more to bankruptcy clerk if direct appeal granted |
Copy fee for documents printed from electronic public access terminal or delivered at the clerk's office counter | $.10 per page to court of appeals clerk (charge applies to printing only; there is no charge for viewing electronic documents at the public access terminal at the courthouse) |
Copy fee for documents sent by mail | $.50 per page to court of appeals clerk
Form: Copy Request |
PACER fee for remote electronic access to documents | $.10 per page. For case-specific documents, the maximum fee per document is $3. The PACER Service Center bills for remote electronic access on a quarterly basis. If quarterly usage does not exceed $15, there is no charge. |
Fee for providing electronic copy of record not available in CM/ECF or PACER | $31 to court of appeals clerk |
Search of court records | $31 to court of appeals clerk
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Certification of any document or paper | $11 to court of appeals clerk
Form: Copy Request |
Reproduction of oral argument recordings | $31 for CD; available without charge on Internet
Form: Oral Argument CD Request |
Box retrieval of court records from NARA,
Philadelphia Federal Records Center | $64 to court of appeals clerk, $39 for each additional box. |
Electronic retrieval of court records from NARA,
Philadelphia Federal Records Center: | $19.90 plus $.65/page to court of appeals clerk (100-page limit) |
Fee for insufficient payment | $53 to court of appeals clerk. Fee payments must be made by cash, certified check or money order. |