When must I correct a rehearing petition returned by the Clerk?

Read the actual Clerk letter and use its date.

Confirm the original rehearing petition was submitted timely and in good faith. Rule 44.6 is not a general late-petition cure.

Identify the stated form deficiency under Rule 44, 33 or 34 and prepare the requested correction. A substantive eligibility dispute is not automatically a covered form defect.

1. Use the date on the Clerk’s Rule 44.6 letter. Confirm the original was timely and in good faith.
2. Exclude the established trigger day.
3. Count 15 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.

The fifteen days run after the letter’s date. The correction must comply with Rule 29.2, including the applicable filing method and required follow-up paper submission.

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 Clerk deficiency letter dated August 24, 2026. The rehearing petition was submitted timely and in good faith, and the Clerk identified a qualifying form deficiency. Exclude the established trigger day, August 24, 2026. Counting 15 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.

Timely, good-faith original

Rule 44.6 applies to a rehearing petition submitted timely and in good faith. The correction period does not cure an untimely original filing.

Specified form deficiency

The Clerk must determine noncompliance in form with Rule 44, 33 or 34 and return the petition with a letter indicating the deficiency.

Rule 29.2 submission

A corrected petition must be submitted through a qualifying Rule 29.2 method within the correction period. Electronic timeliness under the March 2026 rule requires specified paper submission within three days.

No new rehearing right

Rule 44.4 prohibits consecutive and untimely petitions. Rule 44.6 supplies conditional timely treatment of a correction, not permission to relitigate through a new successive petition.

• 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.

• Preserve the Clerk’s actual deficiency letter and its date.
• Verify the original submission was timely and in good faith.
• Identify and correct every stated Rule 44, 33 or 34 form deficiency.
• Submit the corrected petition under Rule 29.2 within the fifteen-day period.
• Check required certification, fee, copies and separate service.
• Preserve original submission, correction and any required paper-copy evidence.
• 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.