Memo from Clerk to Counsel Re: Compliance with Rule 13(a)

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Memo from Clerk to Counsel Re: Compliance with Rule 13(a) Certificate Requirement for Possible Recusal or Disqualification of a Judge No date.

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- Educational Equity
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organization
- LDF
Matter
- Henry v. Clarksdale Municipal Separate School District
Case
- Henry v. Clarksdale Municipal Separate School District
U.S. state
- Mississippi
Collection
- Case Files
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- 1ae64e73-8418-f111-8342-0022482cdbbc

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Case Files, Henry v. Clarksdale Hardbacks. Memo from Clerk to Counsel Re: Compliance with Rule 13(a), 1ae64e73-8418-f111-8342-0022482cdbbc. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/64071dc7-9074-44a8-a627-ab2aedf9f1ee/memo-from-clerk-to-counsel-re-compliance-with-rule-13-a. Accessed April 01, 2026.

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     [||273aa90b-f18e-42b8-8971-d0fef79a4c58||] MEMORANDUM TO ALL COUNSE 

COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 13(a) CERTIFICATE 
REQUIREMENT FOR POSSIBLE RECUSAL OR 
DISQUALIFICATION OF A JUDGE 

Fifth Circuit Local Rule 13(a) prescribes: 

"Certificate of Counsel. A certificate will be 
furnished by counsel for all private (non-governmental) 
parties, both appellants and appellees, which shall be 
incorporated on the first page of each brief before 
the table of contents or index, and which shall certify 
a complete list of all persons, associations of persons, 
firms, partnership, or corporations which have an 
interest in the outcome of the particular case." 

(1) Counsel in some caseshave interpreted this Rule 
as requiring them to list as interested parties only those 
parties they represent. The Court regards this as insufficient 
compliance with the Rule. The Court requires all parties 
filing briefs in all civil actions, (excluding criminal and 
criminal related cases and the briefs filed by Federal and 
State governments and agencies) to list all parties known to 
be interested on all sides of the case, whether represented by 
counsel furnishing the certificate or not. 

(2) In connection with the Rule's requirement to 
‘certify a complete list of all persons, associations of 
persons, firms, partnerships, or corporations’ the Court re- 
quires that this specifically include also all subsidiaries, 
conglomerates, affiliates, parent corporations or other 
identifiable legal entities related to the named party or 
parties known to counsel. The burden is on counsel to 
ascertain and certify the true facts to the Court. 

Edward W. Wadsworth 
Clerk [||273aa90b-f18e-42b8-8971-d0fef79a4c58||]

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Memo from Clerk to Counsel Re: Compliance with Rule 13(a)

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