{"id":41,"date":"2013-05-17T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=41"},"modified":"2023-07-31T16:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T20:59:50","slug":"failure-to-order-transcript-not-fatal-to-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/transcripts\/failure-to-order-transcript-not-fatal-to-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"(2) Failure to Order Transcript Not Fatal to Appeal."},"content":{"rendered":"

Article I, Rule 10(b)(1) of the Supreme Court Rules of Appellate Procedure requires that \u201c[w]ithin twenty (20) days after filing the notice of appeal the appellant shall order from the reporter a transcript of such parts of the proceedings not already on file as the appellant deems necessary for inclusion in the record.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>In In re Estate of Glenn E. Griggs, No. 2012-19-Appeal<\/a>, the appellants had indicated on their notices of appeal that they would order a transcript, but they never did so, nor did they inform the Court that they would proceed without a transcript.\u00a0 <\/span>Based on those failures, the appellee filed a motion to dismiss the appeal.\u00a0 <\/span>Id<\/i>. at 4.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court addressed the appellee\u2019s motion at the outset of its decision on the merits of appellant\u2019s appeal.\u00a0 <\/span>In so doing, the Supreme Court explained \u201cit is the responsibility of an appellant who fails to order a transcript after indicating that he or she would do so, to inform the Court that he or she will not order a transcript.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Id<\/i>. at 5.\u00a0 <\/span>Nevertheless, the Court denied the appellee\u2019s motion, holding that \u201c[w]hile it is regrettable that appellants did not inform the court that they had decided not to order a transcript, that failure does not prevent us from reaching the merits in this particular case.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Id<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>In so holding, the Supreme Court concluded that the appeals concerned a question of law that appeared sufficiently on the Superior Court record.\u00a0 <\/span>Id<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article I, Rule 10(b)(1) of the Supreme Court Rules of Appellate Procedure requires that \u201c[w]ithin twenty (20) days after filing the notice of appeal the appellant shall order from the reporter a transcript of such parts of the proceedings not already on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[18,14,24],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcripts","tag-appellate-practice","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court","tag-transcripts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}