Case Name: Maria GREEN, administrator of the estate of Joseph Jones, Jr. (a/k/a Rosco Simmons), and next of kin of Joseph Jones, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norman CARLSON, Robert L. Brutsche, and Benjamin De Garcia, Defendants-Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1987-03-20
Citations: 813 F.2d 863
Docket Number: No. 86-2096
Parties: Maria GREEN, administrator of the estate of Joseph Jones, Jr. (a/k/a Rosco Simmons), and next of kin of Joseph Jones, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norman CARLSON, Robert L. Brutsche, and Benjamin De Garcia, Defendants-Appellants.
Judges: Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY, and POSNER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 813
Pages: 863–864

Head Matter:
Maria GREEN, administrator of the estate of Joseph Jones, Jr. (a/k/a Rosco Simmons), and next of kin of Joseph Jones, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Norman CARLSON, Robert L. Brutsche, and Benjamin De Garcia, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 86-2096.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted March 9, 1987.
Decided March 20, 1987.
Ronald E. Elberger, Bose, McKinney & Evans, John F. Joyce, Michael A. Bergin, Locke Reynolds Boyd & Weisell, Richard M. Knoth, Andrew W. Hull, Bose, McKinney & Evans, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants-appellants.
Jessie A. Cook, Trueblood, Harmon, Carter & Cook, Terre Haute, Ind., Michael E. Deutsch, Peoples Law Office, G. Flint Taylor, Jr., Chicago, 111., for plaintiff-appellee.
Gerald H. McGlone, Gerald H. McGlone Law Offices, Brad Bough, Terre Haute, Ind., Amicus Curiae.
Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY, and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The appellee has requested our permission to file a brief in excess of 50 pages. See Fed.R.App.P. 28(g). The request states in its entirety: "since Defendants[appellants] have filed a 65 page brief, Appellee respectfully requests that she be permitted to file a 65 page brief in response." The request is DENIED.
We write to clear up the prevalent misconception that if an appellant is granted permission to file a brief in excess of 50 pages, the appellee is entitled to file a brief of equal length. This is not correct. The appellee has the benefit of a favorable decision, and also is not required to include a statement of facts. Hence there is no presumption that he requires the same en largement of the page limitation as the appellant — or any enlargement.
Requests to file oversized briefs "are not favored, . and will be granted only when exceptional circumstances are shown." Practitioner's Handbook for Appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 47 (1986 ed.). A "me too" request such as filed in this case, with no grounds offered except the length of the opponent's brief, will be denied.