Federal Appendix

It collected judicial opinions of the United States courts of appeals that were not expressly selected or designated for publication.

Now, Rule 32.1 says that federal circuit courts are not allowed to prohibit the citation of unpublished opinions issued on or after January 1, 2007.

Opinions of all the circuits of the United States courts of appeals are included in the Federal Appendix.

Publication of Federal Appendix ceased in 2021, but nonprecedential United States courts of appeals opinions are still available on Westlaw, LexisNexis, and other on-line resources.

There is debate within the legal community about the desirability or even the legitimacy of designating certain judicial opinions as without precedential value.