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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On the last IRP-IOT call, the issue was raised on the treatment of page limitation rules for multi-party matters (i.e. whether the page limitations for written statements of 25 pages total set forth in Section
6 is an appropriate collective limit for all parties). We had some research done on this issue. Below is some information for the IRP-IOT’s discussion on this matter as the IOT also considers issues of serving the purpose of the IRP.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">The Rules of Procedure of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and the Rules of Court of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) both support the notion
that co-parties should be treated separately for purposes of submissions/length of submissions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">As the IOT considers updating this Supplemental Procedure, the IOT may wish to consider whether any guidance should be given to parties in avoiding restatements of other party’s arguments/avoidance
of duplication, as the presumed funder of the panelist fees for IRPs is ICANN through the funds to which it has been entrusted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">The rules are as follows:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jpml.uscourts.gov_sites_jpml_files_Panel-2520Rules-2DIndex-5F-2520Copy-2DEffective-2D10-2D4-2D2016-2DIndex-2DUpdate-2D10-2D2-2D2018.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=3mBfUTvyfqDEumrbzweVIa6qFyeEmDaNE5eHQf9QFdU&m=8sOzZjU5026pk_pu22pG4E4naVmm7nXnGY7bkU2z8rE&s=WzbLOvAbMsO4bYvsIWAZCU3eFZevQGfVqn9hsesiu5c&e=" title="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.jpml.uscourts.gov_sites_jpml_files_Panel-2520Rules-2DIndex-5F-2520Copy-2DEffective-2D10-2D4-2D2016-2DIndex-2DUpdate-2D10-2D2-2D2018.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=3mBfU"><span style="color:#4472C4">Judicial
Panel on Multidistrict Litigation [jpml.uscourts.gov]</span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> –
</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space">The following </span>rules imply that aligned parties may file separate briefs, and each brief gets the full page limit (so the parties do not have to split the page limit between them)
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Rule 3.2(a)(iii): Each brief submitted with a motion and any response to it shall not exceed 20 pages, exclusive of exhibits. Each reply shall not exceed 10 pages and shall address arguments raised in the response(s).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
Rule 6.1 <o:p></o:p>
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(c): Responses and Joinders:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Any other party may file a response<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[to a motion] within 21 days after filing of a motion.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo1">
(d): Replies: The movant may file a reply within 7 days after the lapse of the time period for filing a response.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Where a movant is replying to more than one response in opposition, the movant may file a consolidated
reply<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with a limit of 20 pages.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.supremecourt.gov_ctrules_2019RulesoftheCourt.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=3mBfUTvyfqDEumrbzweVIa6qFyeEmDaNE5eHQf9QFdU&m=8sOzZjU5026pk_pu22pG4E4naVmm7nXnGY7bkU2z8rE&s=BjsIYc_baZJbDGcNhEBwm1vbbv5XW_tesJi9aircgjM&e=">SCOTUS
Rules of Court [supremecourt.gov] </a>- The following rules provide joint filers the choice between filing a single brief or filing separate briefs. Either way, the page limits govern each brief individually, not each filer or the filers as a group. These
Supreme Court rules may also be of interest when the IOT moves onto the task of developing rules for appeals from panel decisions.<o:p></o:p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span>Rule 12.4 Review on Certiorari: How Sought; Parties. “Parties interested jointly, severally, or otherwise in a judgment may petition<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>separately</u><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
a writ of certiorari;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u>or any two or more may join in a petition</u>. A party not shown on the petition as joined therein at the time the petition is fled may not later join in that petition. When two or more judgments
are sought to be reviewed on a writ of certiorari to the same court and involve identical or closely related questions, a single petition for a writ of certiorari covering all the judgments suffices. A petition for a writ of certiorari may not be joined with
any other pleading, except that any motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis shall be attached.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
Rule 18.2: Direct appeal from U.S. District Court. “. . . Parties interested jointly, severally, or otherwise in the judgment<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>may appeal separately, or any two or more may join in an appeal.</b> When two or more
judgments involving identical or closely related questions are sought to be reviewed on appeal from the same court, a notice of appeal for each judgment shall be fled with the clerk of the district court, but a single jurisdictional statement covering all
the judgments suffices.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
Rule 33.1(g): Word limits for each type of document filed; no requirement that joint parties file a joint document or that, if they file separately, they will each be subject to a lower word limit.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Best regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sam<o:p></o:p></p>
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