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RULES  OF  THE  SUPREME  COURT 

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under  subparagraph  4(b)  has  been  ordered  and  ﬁled,  when 
the time to ﬁle has expired, or when the right to ﬁle has been 
expressly waived. 

6.  If the Court orders the case set for argument, the Clerk 
will notify the parties whether additional briefs are required, 
when  they  shall  be  ﬁled,  and,  if  the  case  involves  a  petition 
for  a  common-law  writ  of  certiorari,  that  the  parties  shall 
prepare a joint appendix in accordance with Rule 26. 

PART  V.  MOTIONS AND  APPLICATIONS 

Rule 21.  Motions to the Court 

1.  Every  motion  to  the  Court  shall  clearly  state  its  pur­
pose and the facts on which it is based and may present legal 
argument  in  support  thereof.  No  separate  brief  may  be 
ﬁled.  A motion should be concise and shall comply with any 
applicable  page  limits.  Rule  22  governs  an  application  ad­
dressed to a single Justice. 

2.  (a)  A  motion  in  any  action  within  the  Court’s  original 

jurisdiction shall comply with Rule 17.3. 

(b)  A motion to  dismiss as moot (or a  suggestion of moot­
ness), a motion for leave to ﬁle a brief as amicus curiae, and 
any motion the granting of which would dispose of the entire 
case or  would affect the  ﬁnal judgment to be  entered (other 
than  a  motion  to  docket  and  dismiss  under  Rule  18.5  or  a 
motion  for  voluntary  dismissal  under  Rule  46)  shall  be  pre­
pared  as  required  by  Rule  33.1,  and  40  copies  shall  be  ﬁled, 
except  that  a  movant  proceeding  in  forma  pauperis  under 
Rule  39,  including  an  inmate  of  an  institution,  shall  ﬁle  a 
motion  prepared  as  required  by  Rule  33.2,  and  shall  ﬁle  the 
number  of  copies  required  for  a  petition  by  such  a  person 
under Rule 12.2.  The motion shall be served as required by 
Rule 29. 

(c)  Any  other  motion  to  the  Court  shall  be  prepared  as 
required by Rule 33.2; the moving party shall ﬁle an original 
and 10 copies.  The Court subsequently may order the mov­
ing party to prepare the motion as required by Rule 33.1; in 
that event, the party shall ﬁle 40 copies.