Substantial changes to the Connecticut Rules of Appellate Procedure go into effect on July 1, 2013, for all appeals filed on that date and thereafter. These new rules revamp the existing framework governing the requirements for the yellow record and appendices.
Under the old rules, the Appellate Court Clerk's Office compiled pleadings from the trial court file that were "necessary for a proper presentation" of the issues on appeal, and arranged them into a yellow-covered document called the "record." Under the new rules, the clerk's office will no longer compile the yellow record. In fact, there will be no yellow record at all. Instead, it will be the parties' responsibility to assemble the documents that previously would have been bound in the yellow record, and include those documents in a new section of the appendix, called Part I of the appendix.
