When must I serve additional joint appendix designations?

Establish when the respondent or appellee received the initial designation.

Identify the additional record parts needed because the initial designation is insufficient. A mere disagreement does not change the receipt date.

Confirm the ordinary method applies. Approved deferral requires designations when each party’s brief is served under Rule 26.4.

1. Use established receipt of the initial designation, not when it was sent or when the Court granted review.
2. Exclude the established trigger day.
3. Count 10 calendar days.
4. Apply Rule 30.1 final-day adjustment.
5. Complete the required service by that date.

Supreme Court Rule 30.1 excludes the trigger day and includes every intermediate calendar day. For periods shorter than seven days it excludes intermediate closed days. Each fixed period reviewed here is at least seven days.

The incoming paper’s actual receipt starts the ten days. Do not replace it with the sender’s mailing date or add an assumed transit allowance after the count.

If the final day is Saturday, Sunday, a federal legal holiday listed in 5 U.S.C. 6103 or a Court-building closure ordered by the Court or Chief Justice, Rule 30.1 continues the period to the next day that is none of those. Check actual Court closure orders. The calculator does not infer additional closures.

Fictitious example

Fictitious receipt of the initial designation on August 24, 2026. The respondent considers the record portions insufficient and uses the ordinary appendix method. Exclude the established trigger day, August 24, 2026. Counting 10 calendar days reaches September 3, 2026. The final day is an open weekday.

Fictitious facts and dates. No different schedule, additional Court closure or extension is assumed.

Insufficient initial contents

Rule 26.2 addresses the respondent or appellee who considers the initial designation insufficient. Serve a designation of additional parts on petitioner or appellant.

Required inclusion

The petitioner or appellant must include the parts additionally designated. The rule separately addresses a motion concerning unnecessary printing when the opposing party proceeds in forma pauperis.

Deferred designations

Rule 26.4 changes the designation event to each party’s brief service if the Clerk allows deferral.

Unnecessary portions and costs

Rules 26.2 and 26.3 address unnecessary record portions and cost allocation. This date calculation does not decide those disputes.

• The calculator counts the encoded default period after an established trigger. It does not determine jurisdiction, party alignment or the effect of a particular order.
• Check the Court’s docket, actual directions and proof of the required act.

• Verify actual receipt of the initial designation.
• Identify insufficient portions and necessary additional record material.
• Check approved deferral and any changed time limit.
• Serve the additional designation on petitioner or appellant.
• Preserve receipt and service evidence and address costs separately.
• Complete the designation’s required service on the specified opposing party. Rule 29.3 governs service methods. Electronic Court submission does not itself transmit a document to other parties under Rule 29.7. A filed document alone does not prove service.
• Preserve evidence of the required recipients and actual delivery or service.