Indiana Table of Authorities: Briefs Are Not Appendices

The court’s own explanation of the table

That is the official tutorial’s wording, not a claim that the unavailable current rule page was retrieved. The tutorial connects brief contents to Rule 46. Include citations outside the argument, such as the summary and footnotes, and use the complete authority rather than just the case name. Do not fill empty categories with uncited authorities: the tutorial expressly notes that a brief need not contain each kind of authority, but the authorities it does contain must be listed.

Alphabetize case entries and use numerical ordering where that is appropriate for statutes or rules. Grouping cases, constitutional provisions, statutes and other authorities makes the table easier to navigate; the court-linked State Bar handbook illustrates that organization. It is a preparation aid, not a substitute for the governing rule or a mandatory universal category sequence asserted here.

Why appendix pages are not authorities-table pages

The official appendix tutorial explains that an appendix generally has at least two volumes: its first volume contains only the table of contents, and the later volumes contain documents. The court-linked handbook describes an appendix contents entry as identifying the document’s date, page and volume. Those entries tell the reader where to find record evidence, not where the brief cites a case.

For a hypothetical argument citing a contract at Appendix Volume II, page 35 and a statute on brief pages 9 and 14, the statute’s TOA references are 9 and 14. Neither the contract’s appendix page nor the statute’s section number belongs in the table’s page column. A contract citation remains a record reference unless the brief separately cites a legal authority that must be indexed. These are hypothetical page numbers, not a purported Indiana filing example.

An optional addendum is a third document

The Indiana Supreme Court’s June 1, 2026 order, effective July 1, 2026, reproduces Rule 46(H). It says an Addendum to Brief is not required and is not recommended in most cases. It can be a highly selective compilation of helpful material, including key record documents or full texts of statutes and rules that cannot conveniently be reproduced in the brief. It has its own contents and cannot contain argument.

That does not authorize moving the brief’s TOA into the addendum. Nor does a full-text copy of a statute remove the need to list the statute when the brief cites it. The same order amends Rule 50’s appendix provisions and exclusions for protected material. This page addresses table preparation, not authorization to reproduce confidential evidence: keep restricted record materials out of the processing workflow unless their handling is lawful and permitted.