Rule 3. Definitions

Category: Rules of The Supreme Court Section: PROCEDURAL RULES 1 TO 34

"Administrative agency": Includes agency, board, commission, or officer.


"Appeal": Appellate review of rulings adverse to a party, after a final decision on the merits in a trial court.


"Appeal document": Includes notice of mandatory appeal (Rule 7), notice of discretionary appeal (Rule 7), interlocutory appeal (Rule 8), interlocutory transfer without ruling (Rule 9), appeal from administrative agency by petition (Rule 10), and petition for original jurisdiction (Rule 11).


"Appeal from administrative agency by petition": Appellate review of a party's grounds for asserting that an administrative agency's final order or decision on the merits is unlawful or unreasonable.


"Briefs":

     "Opening brief": The brief filed first pursua

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