Opinion
Opinion Delivered March 31, 2011
The Civil Practice Committee recommended a new paragraph (b)(4) to Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-2, to give the appellate court an alternative method to handle a defective abstract or addendum.
We thank the Civil Practice Committee for its work.
We adopt the amendment to Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-2(b), as set out below, and republish this rule. This amendment is effective immediately.
Rules of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
Rule 4-2. Contents of briefs.
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(b) Insufficiency of appellant's abstract or addendum. Motions to dismiss the appeal for insufficiency of appellant's abstract or addendum will not be recognized. Deficiencies in the appellant's abstract or addendum will ordinarily come to the court's attention and be handled in one of four ways as follows:
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(4) If the appellate court determines that deficiencies or omissions in the abstract or addendum need to be corrected, but complete rebriefing is not needed, then the court will order the appellant to file a supplemental abstract or addendum within seven calendar days to provide the additional materials from the record to the members of the appellate court.