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Alaska Table of Authorities: Appellate Rule 212
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Alaska Appellate Rule 212(c)(1)(B) requires a table of cases, statutes and other authorities with brief-page references. Cases must be alphabetically arranged. The table requirement carries into appellee briefs through Rule 212(c)(2) and replies through Rule 212(c)(3). Under Rule 201(a), this Part Two framework applies to appeals as of right to both the Alaska Supreme Court and the Alaska Court of Appeals.
Start an Alaska table of authorities in the generator in standard format; there is no Alaska-specific preset. Export your brief PDF, review authorities and pages, then download an editable Word table. Confirm that Rule 212 is the right procedure for your document before using this appellate checklist.
“A table of cases alphabetically arranged, statutes, and other authorities cited, with references to the pages of the brief where they are cited.” — Alaska Appellate Rule 212(c)(1)(B).
Two authority sections, two different jobs
Alaska's structure is easy to misread. Rule 212(c)(1)(B) is the locator table: it tells the court where cases, statutes and other authorities are cited in your brief. The next provision, (c)(1)(C), separately requires constitutional provisions, statutes, court rules, ordinances and regulations principally relied upon to be set out in full or in pertinent part. An authority's name and page numbers do not reproduce its text. Conversely, copying the governing statute into the next section does not create the table.
Keep the two sections separate in your Word outline. Review the table for completeness, then review the reproduced provisions for the relevant text and version. The generator makes the table; it does not choose which provisions are principally relied upon or supply authoritative statutory text. This distinction remains important on reply because Rule 212(c)(3) incorporates both (1)(B) and (1)(C).
| Item | Purpose | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| Table of contents — (c)(1)(A) | Map sections and argument headings | Use the assembled brief's page references; do not confuse it with the authorities table. |
| Authorities table — (c)(1)(B) | Locate citations within the brief | Alphabetize cases and include statutes and other authorities, with actual brief pages. |
| Principally relied upon — (c)(1)(C) | Provide governing legal text | Reproduce relevant provisions in full or pertinent part; an extracted citation list is insufficient. |
| Record references — (c)(8) | Locate evidentiary/procedural material | Distinguish excerpt, transcript and record locators from the brief-page column. |
| Reply — (c)(3) | Respond within the permitted scope | Retain both authority sections; build a new table from the reply rather than copying the opening table. |
Brief pages are not excerpt or transcript pages
Rule 212(c)(8) uses forms such as [Exc. ___], [Tr. ___] and [R. ___] for record citations. Those references help the court find the evidence. The authorities table's right-hand column instead points to the page of your brief on which the legal authority appears. Check both systems independently. A statute cited on brief page 9 next to an excerpt citation to page 125 belongs at 9 in the authorities table, not 125. These numbers are a hypothetical illustration, not an example from a filed case.
Rule 212(c)(4) states that numbered pages for its principal-brief length calculation begin with the jurisdictional statement in (c)(1)(D). Do not assume that the PDF viewer's physical sheet count is your brief's printed locator. After assembling the front matter, inspect the exported PDF's displayed pages and the references you intend the court to follow.
PDF-to-Word workflow for an Alaska brief
- Export the complete draft. Keep the version with stable printed page numbers and retain its matching .docx. A PDF containing only the argument can conceal front-matter or pagination problems.
- Choose standard format. Open the linked generator and confirm its actual settings. Alaska has no named preset. Court detection or a sample can override the initial selection.
- Review the authority list. Check alphabetical case order, full and short forms, statutory sections, rules, footnotes and each occurrence's brief page. Merge true duplicates without merging different decisions.
- Download or insert. PDF-only yields an editable Word table. Matching Word plus a text-layer PDF can insert ordinary table text into the brief. DOCX-only creates Word fields for Word for Windows instead; that is a different workflow.
- Recheck the final PDF. Inserting the table or changing the reproduced provisions can shift pages. Re-export and verify all locators. Separately prepare required legal-text sections, form requirements and filing materials; the app does not restyle citations or add electronic bookmarks.
Frequently asked
Does Alaska require a table in a reply brief?
Yes. Rule 212(c)(3) incorporates (c)(1)(B), along with the table of contents and other specified sections. The court's self-help reply page also lists a Table of Authorities and Authorities principally relied upon as separate sections.
Does this cover both Alaska appellate courts?
Rule 201(a) says Part Two applies to appeals as of right to the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Do not extend that statement automatically to discretionary petitions, sentence-appeal memoranda or appeals to the superior court, which have separate procedural provisions.
Can an appellee omit the authorities table?
Rule 212(c)(2) requires conformity to (1)(A) through (1)(I), with exceptions for specified statements and the party list. The exceptions do not remove (1)(B)'s table requirement.
Is the reproduced-statutes section the same as the table?
No. The table locates citations; (c)(1)(C) calls for the full or pertinent text of specified kinds of provisions principally relied upon. Review and prepare that text separately.
Does Rule 212 require this table in every trial motion?
No such trial-court requirement is established here. This guide is scoped to Rule 212 appellate briefs. Check the governing trial rule and orders for a trial-court memorandum. The table provision also supplies no express passim threshold; review actual page references rather than assuming permission to substitute passim.
Official sources and verification limits
- Alaska Court System — Rules of Appellate ProcedureRead Rules 201(a), 212(c)(1)–(4) and (8), checked October 14, 2026. Direct access and the public-host alternative timed out; full official PDF text was retrieved through a text-fetch proxy. Retrieved publication timestamp: July 24, 2025. Consult subsequent orders/current rules before filing.courts.alaska.gov
- Alaska Court System — Appellant's reply briefOfficial self-help section list read through a text-fetch proxy October 14, 2026. Its form guidance is expressly for self-represented civil appeals to the Alaska Supreme Court; the broader court-scope statement above comes from Rule 201, not this form page.courts.alaska.gov
Sources
- Alaska Rules of Appellate Procedurecourts.alaska.gov
- Alaska appellant's reply brief guidancecourts.alaska.gov
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