UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

ELBERT PARR TUTTLE COURT OF APPEALS BUILDING

56 Forsyth Street, NW,

Atlanta, Georgia 30303

John Ley

Clerk of Court

September 20, 2010

Lennox S. Hinds

Stevens Hinds & White PC

116W. 111th Street

New York, NY 10026

Appeal Number: 10-14328-D

Case Style: Sherrie Russell-Brown v. University of FL Bd. of Ed., et al

District Court Docket No: 1 :09-cv-00257-MP-AK

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The referenced case was docketed in this court on September 16, 2010. Please use the

appellate docket number noted above when making inquiries.

Attorneys who wish to participate in this appeal must be properly admitted either to the bar of

this court or for this particular proceeding pursuant to 11th Cir. R. 46-1. An attorney not yet

properly admitted must file an appropriate application for admission within fourteen (14) days

from this date. In addition, all attorneys (except court-appointed counsel) who wish to

participate in this appeal must complete and return an appearance form within fourteen (14)

days. Application for Admission to the Bar and Appearance of Counsel Form are available on

the Internet at WWW.Ca 11 .uscourts.gov . The clerk may not accept motions or other filings

from an attorney until that attorney files an appearance form. See 11th Cir. R. 46-5.

11th Cir. R. 33-1 (a) requires appellant to file a Civil Appeal Statement in most civil appeals.

You must file an original and one copy of a completed Civil Appeal Statement, with service on

all other parties, within 14 days from the date of this letter. Civil Appeal Statement forms are

available on the Internet at www.cal I .uscourts.gov , and as provided by 11th Cir. R. 33-1(a).

We have not yet received the Certificate of interested Persons and_çppprate Disclosure

Statement (CIP) required by FRAP 26.1 and the accompanying circuit rules. The rules provide

that the certificate must be filed by every appellant [and cross-appellant] with this court within

14 days after the date the appeal is docketed in this court, or along with the filing in this court

by any party of any motion, petition, or pleading, whichever occurs first. The rules further

provide that on the same day a paper certificate is served, the party filing it must also complete

the court's web-based certificate at the "Electronic Filing" link of the court's website,

www.ca II .uscourtsgov , by electronically providing the information required for that form.

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Only the ticker symbols for publicly traded corporations that are listed on the paper CIP must

be entered in the web-based system. If your CIP does not include any publicly traded

corporations, you are required to go to the website and simply click the button indicating that

you have no publicly traded corporations to report. Pro se parties are not required or

authorized to complete the web-based certificate.

You are hereby notified that the clerk is not authorized to submit to the court any brief (except

for the reply brief of an appellant or cross-appellant), petition, answer, motion or response that

does not contain the certificate, but may receive and retain the papers pending supplementation

of the papers with the required certificate. You are also hereby notified that failure to submit

the required certificate will result in your document(s) being returned unfiled which may

ultimately result in dismissal of your appeal.

Pursuant to Eleventh Circuit Rule 42-1(b) you are hereby notified that upon expiration of (14)

days from this date, this appeal will be dismissed by the clerk without further notice unless the

default(s) noted below have been corrected:

Pay to the DISTRICT COURT clerk the $450 docket and $5 filing fees (total of $455), with

notice to this office, or request !eavejceed in forma pauperis on appeal in the district

court. See Fed.R. App.P. 24(a). If the district court denies such leave, appellant may file in

this court a Motion to Proceed in forma pauperis in this court with a financial affidavit.

File a Transcript Order Form , as required by Fed.R.App.P. 10(b)(1); a Transcript Information

Form is available from the district court clerk. Appellant is required to file and serve copies of

the form in accordance with the instructions included on the form. UNLESS A TRANSCRIPT

IS ORDERED, APPELLANT'S BRIEF MUST BE SERVED AND FILED WITHIN 40

DAYS FROM September 16, 2010. See 11th Cir. R. 12-1 and 3 1-1.

Sincerely,

JOHN LEY, Clerk of Court

Reply to: Nancy Holbrook

Phone #: (404) 335-6183

DKT-2 Appeal WITH Deficiency

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