{"id":4110,"date":"2025-12-17T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:42:24","slug":"rules-of-appellate-procedure-comment-period-closes-february-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/2025\/12\/17\/rules-of-appellate-procedure-comment-period-closes-february-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Appellate Procedure &#8211; Comment Period Closed February 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09.URAP-5_for-public-comment.pdf\">URAP005.<\/a> <b>Discretionary appeals from interlocutory orders. Amend.<\/b>\u00a0The Committee proposes amended Rule 5 to: 1) clarify that the petition for an interlocutory appeal must be filed after the trial court\u2019s signed order resolving the motion or issue before the trial court has been entered; and 2) add an adversary committee note further clarifying what orders qualify as the trial court\u2019s signed order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09.URAP-22_for-public-comment.pdf\">URAP020.<\/a> <b>Computation and enlargement of time. Amend.\u00a0<\/b>The Committee proposes amending Rule 22 to: 1) change enlargement of time to extension of time throughout the rule for consistency; 2) move the stipulation language from Rule 26 to Rule 22 so the procedures for extensions of time can be found in one rule; 3) increase the amount of stipulated requests for extensions of time to up to 60 days; 4) clarify that stipulated requests for enlargements of time will be granted automatically without a court order; 5) remove paragraph (c) Ex parte motion as these are rarely used and can be filed as a regular motion for extension of time; and 5) clean-up for clarity and consistency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09.URAP-26_for-public-comment.pdf\">URAP026.<\/a> <b>Filing and serving briefs. Amend.\u00a0<\/b>The Committee proposes amending Rule 26 to: 1) remove the language regarding stipulated requests for extensions of time; 2) add a paragraph directing parties to Rule 22 to find the procedures for requesting an extension of time; and 3) clean-up for clarity and consistency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/2025.12.09.URAP-27_for-public-comment.pdf\">URAP027.<\/a> <b>Form of briefs, motions, and other documents. Amend.\u00a0<\/b>The Committee proposes amending Rule 27 to: 1) change the language in paragraph (a) Typeface from \u201ca plain, roman style with serifs\u201d to \u201cplain and legible\u201d; and 2) remove the cross reference to Rule 3 in paragraphs (c)(1)(C) and (d)(1)(C).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URAP005. Discretionary appeals from interlocutory orders. Amend.\u00a0The Committee proposes amended Rule 5 to: 1) clarify that the petition for an interlocutory appeal must be filed after the trial court\u2019s signed order resolving the motion or issue before the trial court has been entered; and 2) add an adversary committee note further clarifying what orders qualify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,287,926,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urap005","category-urap020","category-urap026","category-urap027"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 01:32:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}