Appellate Practice

Practitioner Materials: Standing Order No. 2

UTAH SUPREME COURT

STANDING ORDER NO. 2

(Dealing with petitions for rehearing)

The Court hereby issues the following instructions to the clerk of the Court:

Petitions for Rehearing will be accepted pursuant to Rule 35 of the Utah Rules of Appellate Procedure in cases which have received plenary review by the Court and a full opinion has been published, either as a signed opinion or per curiam.

The substance of Rule 35 provides concise instructions for rehearings, and further provides that untimely or consecutive petitions will not be received by the clerk.

The clerk is further instructed to refuse to accept petitions for rehearing, motions for reconsideration, or any instrument similarly captioned in the categories of actions next named: interlocutory appeals which have been denied (Rule 5), motions for summary disposition which have been granted or denied (Rule 10), and petitions for writ of certiorari which have been denied (Rule 49).

FOR THE COURT
/s/
Richard C. Howe
Chief Justice