The answering brief shall be filed and served not more than 30 days after service of the appellant's brief and the Joint Record or Joint Appendix and it shall include the points of argument on the cross appeal. The time to perfect begins to run on the first Notice of Appeal. Appellate briefs in electronic format containing hyperlinks to the complete text of any documents cited therein. Many appellate courts are encouraging filings on CD-ROM with either consent from the adversary or by motion. Once you've downloaded the Reader it will start automatically whenever you want to view a PDF file.
Same amount has to be filed.
No. 30-day grace time is given. The rules of the Court can be ambiguous. It is our experience that these motions are rarely, if ever granted. The Appellant's Brief must be filed within 20 days, unless the notice of appeal expires before the allotted time. The Appellate Division-First Department is the only New York state appellate court that allows minuscripts in records or appendices.