NEW YORK STATE COURT OF APPEALS

1. Digital copies of motion and opposition papers, criminal leave applications and Rule 500.10 Jurisdictional Responses shall be transmitted to the Clerk's Office by uploading them to the Companion Filing Upload Portal for Civil Motions, Rule 500.10 Jurisdictional Responses and Criminal Leave Applications (the Portal). The Clerk’s Office will provide written instructions to parties to upload digital submissions using the Portal. You will not be able to upload documents through the Portal until you receive a motion number, CLA number, or appeal number (as applicable) and a pin number in a letter from the Court (see Rule 500.2 [d] [companion digital filings for civil motions shall be submitted no later than seven days after the return date of the motion; companion digital filings for CLAs shall be submitted within the time directed by the Clerk of the Court]).

2. Uploading digital submissions to the Portal does not satisfy the service or filing due dates of the CPLR, the CPL or the Court's Rules of Practice. The filer is responsible for meeting the Court’s applicable due dates by filing the required number of paper documents with the Clerk's Office. A document is "filed" with the Clerk's Office on the date of receipt of the paper document.

3. All digital submissions to the Court of Appeals shall be in text searchable portable document format (PDF).

4. The digital submissions shall be named in accordance with the conventions provided by the Clerk's Office.

5. Digital submissions may not exceed a file size of 100 megabytes. Filers are permitted to upload up to five documents per uploading session.

6. Removing metadata from digital submissions is the filer's responsibility.

7. By uploading documents to the Portal, a filer attests that the digital submissions being uploaded are identical to the filed original printed material, except that the digital submissions do not contain an original signature.

The appropriate title of the action can be found in the motion instruction or jurisdictional inquiry letter sent to parties. These naming conventions use the parties' designation in the Court of Appeals (i.e. role), not the court of original instance or the intermediate appellate court. The party moving for leave to appeal or appealing is the appellant; parties opposing the motion or appeal are respondents.

ABBREVIATIONS:

PDF FILE NAMING CONVENTIONS:

Motion: title of action-role-name-mot

Opposition to Motion: title of action-role-name-opp

Rule 500.10 Jurisdictional Responses: title of action–role–name-JurResp

Criminal Leave Application: title of action-role-name-CLALetter

Appellate Division materials:
title of action-role-name-ADbrf
title of action-role-name-ADreplybrf
title of action-role-name-ADmot
title of action-role-name-WECN
title of action-role-name-ADRec

Multiple Volumes (if more than one volume of a record is filed, each volume should be a separate file): title of action-role-name-Rec-vol1

Title of Action: People v Gray (as found in CLA assignment letter)
Applicant: Gray
Responding Party: People

PeoplevGray—App—Gray—CLALetter

PeoplevGray—App—Gray—ADorder

PeoplevGray—App—Gray—ADbrf

PeoplevGray—Res—People—ADbrf

PeoplevGray—App—Gray—CLAAddSub

PeoplevGray—Res—People—CLAOpp

Title of Action: Smith v Jones (as found in motion instruction letter from Clerk's Office)
Appellant: Smith
Respondent: Jones

SmithvJones-app-Smith-mot

SmithvJones-app-Smith-ADbrf

SmithvJones-res-Jones-ADbrf

SmithvJones-app-Smith-ADreplybrf

SmithvJones-app-Smith-ADRec-vol1

SmithvJones-app-Smith-ADRec-vol2

SmithvJones-res-Jones-opp.pdf

Title of Action: Gray v Brown (as found in instruction schedule letter from Clerk's Office)

Appellant: Gray

Respondent: Brown

GrayvBrown-app-Gray-JurRsp

GrayvBrown-app-Gray-ADbrf

GrayvBrown-res-Brown-ADbrf

GrayvBrown-app-Gray-ADRec

GrayvBrown-res-Brown-JurRsp