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RULES  OF  THE  SUPREME  COURT 

Type of Document 

(vii)  Reply Brief on the Merits (Rule 24.4) 
(viii)  Reply  to  Plaintiff ’s  Exceptions  to  Report  of 

Word 
Limits 
6,000 

Color of
 
Cover
 
yellow 

Special Master (Rule 17) 

15,000 

orange 

(ix)  Reply  to  Exceptions  by  Party  Other  Than 

Plaintiff to Report of Special Master (Rule 17)  15,000 

yellow 

(x)  Brief  for  an  Amicus  Curiae  at  the  Petition 
Stage  or  pertaining  to  a  Motion  for  Leave  to 
ﬁle a Bill of Complaint (Rule 37.2) 

(xi)  Brief  for  an  Amicus  Curiae  in  Support  of  the 
Plaintiff,  Petitioner,  or  Appellant,  or  in  Sup­
port  of  Neither  Party,  on  the  Merits  or  in 
an  Original  Action  at  the  Exceptions  Stage 
(Rule 37.3) 

(xii)  Brief  for  an  Amicus  Curiae  in  Support  of  the 
Defendant,  Respondent,  or  Appellee,  on  the 
Merits  or  in  an  Original  Action  at  the  Excep­
tions Stage (Rule 37.3) 

(xiii)  Petition for Rehearing (Rule 44) 

6,000 

cream 

9,000 

light 
green 

9,000 
3,000 

dark 
green 
tan 

(h)  A document prepared under Rule 33.1 must be accom­
panied  by  a  certiﬁcate  signed  by  the  attorney,  the  unrepre­
sented  party,  or  the  preparer  of  the  document  stating  that 
the  brief  complies  with  the  word  limitations.  The  person 
preparing  the  certiﬁcate  may  rely  on  the  word  count  of  the 
word-processing system used to prepare the document.  The 
word-processing  system  must  be  set  to  include  footnotes  in 
the  word  count.  The  certiﬁcate  must  state  the  number  of 
words in the document.  The certiﬁcate shall accompany the 
document  when  it  is  presented  to  the  Clerk  for  ﬁling  and 
shall  be  separate  from  it.  If  the  certiﬁcate  is  signed  by  a 
person  other  than  a  member  of  the  Bar  of  this  Court,  the 
counsel of record, or the unrepresented party, it must contain 
a  notarized  afﬁdavit  or  declaration  in  compliance  with  28 
U. S. C. § 1746. 

2.  81⁄2- by  11-Inch  Paper  Format:  (a)  The  text  of  every 
document, including any appendix thereto, expressly permit­
ted  by  these  Rules  to  be  presented  to  the  Court  on  81⁄2- by  
11-inch paper shall appear double spaced, except for indented 
quotations,  which  shall  be  single  spaced,  on  opaque,  un­