Rule text
All motions and oppositions shall be filed with the appellate clerk in accordance with the provisions of Sections 60-7 and 60-8 and docketed upon filing. The submission may be returned for noncompliance with the Rules of Appellate Procedure. All papers shall contain a certification that:
(1) a copy has been delivered to each other counsel of record in accordance with the provisions of Section 62-7, and (2) that the motion or opposition complies with the word count requirement of Section 66-1 (b) or Section 66-2 (b), as applicable. No motion or opposition directed to the Supreme or Appellate Court shall be filed after expiration of the time for its filing unless the filer demonstrates good cause for its untimeliness in a separate section captioned "good cause for late filing." No motion directed to the trial court that is required to be filed with the appellate clerk shall be filed after expiration of the time for its filing without permission of the court. A motion to file a late trial court motion must be accompanied by the proposed trial court motion. No amendment to a motion or opposition shall be filed without permission of the court. No motion to dismiss a motion will be accepted by the appellate clerk. Any objection to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the motion shall be included in the opposition. Motions and oppositions, including footnotes, shall be typed in a 12 point serif font. Section captions shall be typed in a 14 point serif font. A list of serif fonts can be found in the guidelines published on the Judicial Branch website. Margins shall be 1 and 1/2 inches on all sides. All text must be left aligned. Line spacing can be between 1.3x and 1.5x and must be uniform throughout, including the body of the document, footnotes, and block quotes. Bold face or italic emphasis tools shall be used, not underlining. Motions and oppositions shall each be filed as one document with a single pagination scheme that starts on the first page of the motion or opposition and continues throughout the entire document, on every page, including the pages in an attached appendix, if any. The page numbers shall be centered on the bottom of the page and shall be written as "Page X of XX" (e.g., Page 1 of 33 . . . Page 7 of 33 . . . Page 33 of 33).
Notes
(P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 4042.) (Amended Oct. 16, 2002, to take effect Jan. 1, 2003; amended May 15, 2003, to take effect Jan. 1, 2004; amended Sept. 16, 2015, to take effect Jan. 1, 2016; amended June 15, 2016, to take effect Sept. 30, 2016; amended Oct. 24, 2018, to take effect Jan. 1, 2019; amended July 19, 2022, to take effect Jan. 1, 2023; amended June 27, 2023, to take effect Jan. 1, 2024; amended July 15, 2025, to take effect Jan. 1, 2026.)
HISTORY-2026: In the first paragraph, subdivision (1) was enumerated as such, and subdivision (2) was added. What are now the third and fifth paragraphs were added, and what had been the last paragraph concerning the certificate of interested entities or individuals was deleted.
COMMENTARY-September, 2016: These amendments eliminate the requirement of filing a motion for permission to file a late paper in the Supreme or Appellate Court. For example, a party may file a late motion for review, provided that the motion includes a separate section demonstrating good cause for its untimeliness. Motions that are directed to the trial court that are filed with the appellate clerk's office, for example, motions for articulation or rectification, still require a separate motion for permission to file late and must include the proposed trial court motion. This section does not apply to the late filing of the following: briefs, preliminary papers, writs of error, reservations, appeals, certified questions, and certification pursuant to General Statutes § 52-265a. See Section 60-2.
COMMENTARY-2026: The purpose of these amendments is to make the formatting rules for briefs, motions, petitions and oppositions consistent such that all of them are filed, with any attachments, as one document with a single pagination scheme, to make clear that a party cannot file a motion to dismiss a motion and, instead, shall raise any jurisdictional claim in an opposition, to add a word count certification requirement, and to provide that parties are required to file a certificate of interested entities or individuals only when the reviewing court orders the parties to file the certificate when necessary.