---
kind: "section"
citation: "Fed. R. App. P. 5.1"
title: "28a"
title_heading: "Judicial Personnel Financial Disclosure Requirements"
number: "app-5.1"
heading: "Appeal by Leave under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(5) (Abrogated Apr. 24, 1998, eff. Dec. 1, 1998)"
status: "unknown"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28a/app-5.1"
units:
  - "Court Rules — Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure"
  - "Title II — Appeal from a Judgment or Order of a District Court"
---

# [Rule 5.1. Appeal by Leave under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(5) (Abrogated Apr. 24, 1998, eff. Dec. 1, 1998) — unknown]



## Notes

### Committee Notes on Rules—1998 Amendment

The Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104–317, abolished appeals by permission under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c)(5), making Rule 5.1 obsolete. Rule 5.1 is, therefore, abrogated.