When is a Clerk-approved deferred joint appendix due?

Read the actual Clerk permission allowing the parties’ requested deferral. Deferral is not favored and is not automatic.

Establish receipt of the respondent’s or appellee’s merits brief by the petitioner or appellant.

Check the allowed method, actual directions and designations made by each party when its brief is served.

1. Confirm the Clerk allowed deferral and establish actual receipt of the respondent’s merits brief.
2. Exclude the established trigger day.
3. Count 14 calendar days.
4. Apply Rule 30.1 final-day adjustment.
5. Complete the required filing 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.

Rule 26.4 uses receipt. Do not start from when the respondent filed the brief or dispatched a paper copy.

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 respondent’s merits brief on August 25, 2026. The Clerk previously allowed the deferred appendix and no other direction changes its time. Exclude the established trigger day, August 25, 2026. Counting 14 calendar days reaches September 8, 2026. The final day is an open weekday.

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

Permission first

The Clerk may allow deferral on the parties’ request. An unapproved request does not displace Rule 26.1’s ordinary 45-day appendix period.

Designation timing

Rules 26.1–3 otherwise remain applicable, but each party makes its designation when its brief is served under Rule 26.4(a).

Record-page references

Rule 26.4(b) supplies separate record-page and replacement-booklet requirements. Its ten-day revised-reference filing period is not this fourteen-day appendix period.

Actual time changes

Rule 26.9 allows specified good-cause changes. Use the actual direction and preserve receipt evidence.

• 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.

• Confirm the Clerk’s actual permission for the deferred method.
• Verify receipt of the respondent’s merits brief.
• Check each party’s designation at brief service.
• Prepare and file the appendix with required copies and separate service.
• Immediately file and serve the printing-cost statement.
• Check any separate replacement brief-reference requirements under Rule 26.4(b).
• Rule 29.2 distinguishes timely paper receipt, qualifying USPS postmark, commercial-carrier delivery and proper electronic submission. Under the March 2026 rule, electronic timeliness requires the paper copies to be delivered or mailed by a specified method within three days. Rule 29.7 and the current guidelines impose additional electronic-submission requirements for represented filers and identify exceptions. Filing with the Court does not itself transmit the document to other parties.
• Check represented-filer electronic requirements and paper-copy requirements. The March 2026 guidelines exempt specified sealed and privacy-sensitive filings from electronic submission.
• Preserve both filing and separate service evidence.