Fed. R. App. P. 7
______________________________________________
[insert name of court; for example,
United States District Court for the District of Minnesota]
A.B., Plaintiff
v.
}Case No.________
C.D., Defendant
I am an inmate confined in an institution. Today, ________ [insert date], I am depositing the ________ [insert title of document; for example, "notice of appeal"] in this case in the institution's internal mail system. First-class postage is being prepaid either by me or by the institution on my behalf.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct (see 28 U.S.C. § 1746; 18 U.S.C. § 1621) .
Sign your name here________________________
Signed on ________________[insert date]
[Note to inmate filers:If your institution has a system designed for legal mail, you must use that system in order to receive the timing benefit of Fed. R. App. P. 4(c)(1) or Fed. R. App. P. 25(a)(2)(A)(iii).]
28 APPENDIX U.S.C. § 7