Pennsylvania Code › Title 210 - APPELLATE PROCEDURE › Part I - RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE › Article II - APPELLATE PROCEDURE › Chapter 21 - BRIEFS AND REPRODUCED RECORD › FILING AND SERVICE › Rule 2185 - Service and Filing of Briefs

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Time for serving and filing briefs
.
(1)
General rule
.-Except as
					 otherwise provided by this rule, the appellant shall serve and file appellant's
					 brief not later than the date fixed pursuant to Subdivision (b) of this rule,
					 or within 40 days after the date on which the record is filed, if no other date
					 is so fixed. The appellee shall serve and file appellee's brief within 30 days
					 after service of appellant's brief and reproduced record if proceeding under
					 Rule 2154(a) (general rule). A party may serve and file a reply brief permitted
					 by these rules within 14 days after service of the preceding brief but, except
					 for good cause shown, a reply brief must be served and filed so as to be
					 received at least three days before argument. In cross appeals, the second
					 brief of the deemed or designated appellant shall be served and filed within 30
					 days of service of the deemed or designated appellee's first brief. Except as
					 prescribed by Rule 2187(b) (advance text of briefs), each brief shall be filed
					 not later than the last day fixed by or pursuant to this rule for its service.
					 Briefs shall be deemed filed on the date of mailing if first class, express, or
					 priority United States Postal Service mail is utilized.
(2)
Children's fast track
					 appeals
.
(i) In a children's fast
					 track appeal, the appellant shall serve and file appellant's brief within 30
					 days after the date on which the record is filed, if no other date is so fixed.
					 The appellee shall serve and file appellee's brief within 21 days after service
					 of appellant's brief and reproduced record. A party may serve and file a reply
					 brief permitted by these rules within 7 days after service of the preceding
					 brief but, except for good cause shown, a reply brief must be served and filed
					 so as to be received at least 3 days before argument. In cross appeals, the
					 second brief of the deemed or designated appellant shall be served and filed
					 within 21 days of service of the deemed or designated appellee's first brief.
					 Briefs shall be deemed filed on the date of mailing if first class, express, or
					 priority United States Postal Service mail is utilized.
(ii) In a children's fast track appeal, the
					 provisions of Subdivisions (b) and (c) of this Rule shall not apply.
(3)
Multiple briefs for
					 appellants or appellees
.-If the time for filing a brief is established
					 by reference to service of a preceding brief and more than one such preceding
					 brief is filed, the deadline for filing the subsequent brief shall be
					 calculated from the date on which the last timely filed preceding brief is
					 served. If no such preceding brief is filed, the deadline for a subsequent
					 brief shall be calculated from the date on which the preceding brief should
					 have been filed.