When is the ordinary Appellate Division respondent brief due?

Establish the appellate department and that this is an ordinary respondent brief, not a cross-appeal answering brief.

Preserve valid personal service of the appellant’s required submissions and any actual court schedule.

Responsible actor. The respondent on the ordinary civil appeal. An ordinary non-cross-appeal in the Second, Third or Fourth Department, with personal service and no different court schedule or extension.

1. Establish the appellate department and that this is an ordinary respondent brief, not a cross-appeal answering brief.
2. Preserve valid personal service of the appellant’s required submissions and any actual court schedule.
3. Exclude the established event day and count every intermediate calendar day under GCL 20.
4. File the respondent brief, any required appendix and proof of service, and complete the department’s electronic, hard-copy and fee requirements.

GCL 20 excludes the established event day. These five-, ten-, fifteen-, twenty-, twenty-one-, thirty-, sixty- and ninety-day periods count intermediate calendar days. GCL 30 uses the corresponding calendar-month day, or the final day of a shorter month. GCL 58 defines a year as twelve months. GCL 25-a permits the next succeeding business day when the statutory final day is closed and expressly includes periods before which an act is required. The actual hearing or entry time and any different court direction remain separate checks. The independent calendar follows GCL 24 and Election Law 8-100. It includes Lincoln’s Birthday, the second Sunday in June as Flag Day, Juneteenth and general election day. GCL 24 adds the following day for a listed Sunday holiday except Flag Day. It does not generally move a Saturday holiday to Friday. Dates after 2027 are projections of the reviewed standing statute through 2033, not proof of future court openings. Check amendments, additional appointed holidays and actual closures separately.

The scoped calculators accept independently established events in 2026 and 2027 and projected final dates through 2033. They require the particular disclosed branch, no unsupported service-method addition, no unmodeled toll, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Earlier editions, historical tolls and outside dates require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software boundary does not establish that an act is legally late.

Fictitious example

An ordinary non-cross-appeal in the Second, Third or Fourth Department, with personal service and no different court schedule or extension. Fictitious established facts. An ordinary non-cross-appeal in the Second, Third or Fourth Department, with personal service and no different court schedule or extension.

Fictitious established facts. The date does not prove classification, valid service, jurisdiction, completed filing, a granted motion or an extension. Any earlier competing boundary, actual hour and future-calendar qualification still applies.

First Department

Its published terms calendar applies instead of this thirty-day preset.

Cross appeals

Subdivision (f) supplies a combined brief schedule and different roles.

Actual extension

Subdivision (g) requires qualifying stipulation, application or motion. No automatic extra days are added.

Edition and projected calendar

The scoped calculators accept independently established events in 2026 and 2027 and projected final dates through 2033. They require the particular disclosed branch, no unsupported service-method addition, no unmodeled toll, no different actual court order and no additional closure. Earlier editions, historical tolls and outside dates require separate review and receive no computed or paid date. This software boundary does not establish that an act is legally late.

• An ordinary non-cross-appeal in the Second, Third or Fourth Department, with personal service and no different court schedule or extension.
• Use only the disclosed statutory component. Establish every omitted branch separately.

• Establish the appellate department and that this is an ordinary respondent brief, not a cross-appeal answering brief.
• Preserve valid personal service of the appellant’s required submissions and any actual court schedule.
• File the respondent brief, any required appendix and proof of service, and complete the department’s electronic, hard-copy and fee requirements.
• Its published terms calendar applies instead of this thirty-day preset.
• Subdivision (f) supplies a combined brief schedule and different roles.
• Subdivision (g) requires qualifying stipulation, application or motion. No automatic extra days are added.
• Part 1245 governs applicable appellate e-filing. Rule 1245.7(a)-(b) distinguishes document transmission with the required fee from issuance of the service notification. Rule 1245.6 requires additional hard copies after approval; failure to supply them can leave filing incomplete. Preserve department-specific submissions, service proof and completion evidence. Paper timing and actual technical-failure directions remain separate.