Lisa WILLIAMS-LINDSEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL CAR RENTAL SYSTEM, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee, 143 F. App'x 712

ORDER The appellant’s brief contains no argument. The portion of the brief labeled argument merely incorporates by reference briefs filed by the appellant in the district court. Briefs are forbidden to incorporate by reference other documents— not only because the appellate judges often will not have ready access to them, and not only because briefs filed in a lower court will not adequately frame the issues for the appellate court, but also because incorporation creates problems with enforcing the limits on the length of briefs.

This is not a novel rule, but a long-established one that the appellant’s lawyer could have no excuse for flouting. See Albrecktsen v. Board of Regents, 309 F.3d 433, 436 (7th Cir.2002); Fleming v. Kane County, 855 F.2d 496, 498 (7th Cir.1988); Hunter v. Allis-Chalmers Corp., 797 F.2d 1417, 1430 (7th Cir.1986). AFFIRMED