N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 5529: Form of briefs and appendices

Rule 5529. Form of briefs and appendices. (a) Form of reproduction;

size; paper; binding.

1. Briefs and appendices shall be reproduced by any method that

produces a permanent, legible, black image on white paper. Paper shall

be of a quality approved by the chief administrator of the courts.

2. Briefs and appendices shall be on white paper eleven inches along

the bound edge by eight and one-half inches.

3. An appellate court may by rule applicable to practice therein

prescribe the size of margins and type of briefs and appendices and the

line spacing and the length of briefs.

(b) Numbering. Pages of briefs shall be numbered consecutively. Pages

of appendices shall be separately numbered consecutively, each number

preceded by the letter A.

(c) Page headings. The subject matter of each page of the appendix

shall be stated at the top thereof, except that in the case of papers

other than testimony, the subject matter of the paper may be stated at

the top of the first page of each paper, together with the page numbers

of the first and last pages thereof. In the case of testimony, the name

of the witness, by whom he was called and whether the testimony is

direct, cross, redirect or recross examination shall be stated at the

top of each page.

(d) Quotations. Asterisks or other appropriate means shall be used to

indicate omissions in quoted excerpts. Reference shall be made to the

source of the excerpts quoted. Where an excerpt in the appendix is

testimony of a witness quoted from the record the beginning of each page

of the transcript shall be indicated by parenthetical insertion of the

transcript page number.

(e) Citations of decisions. New York decisions shall be cited from the

official reports, if any. All other decisions shall be cited from the

official reports, if any, and also from the National Reporter System if

they are there reported. Decisions not reported officially or in the

National Reporter System shall be cited from the most available source.

(f) Questions and answers. The answer to a question in the appendix

shall not begin a new paragraph.