How Do You Avoid Reproducing the Same Document Multiple Times in Your Appellate Submission?

26 Oct How Do You Avoid Reproducing the Same Document Multiple Times in Your Appellate Submission?

{1:02 minutes to read} Are you proceeding with your appeal on a fully reproduced record and are concerned that there are numerous documents that appear multiple times within the papers?

What is the correct process to avoid reproducing the same document multiple times?

All 4 Departments of the Appellate Division in New York provide for cross-referencing of duplicative material within the record on appeal, such that when a document is reproduced multiple times in the record, a notation is made where it would appear, cross-referencing the reader back to where it showed up the first time.

The document is only reproduced in that first instance, and where it appears again, it is cross-referenced back to the actual document.

This is the procedure that the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th Departments all prefer, as they do not want multiple copies of the same document to appear within the record on appeal.

If you have any questions about how to avoid reproducing the same document in your submission, please contact Appellate Innovations here.

Eric R. Larke
APPELLATE INNOVATIONS
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White Plains, NY 10601
Phone: (914) 948-2240