by any other court, as to call for an exercise of

the Appellate Court’s supervision. (D) A question of great public importance is involved. (3) A summary of the case containing the facts material to the consideration of the ques- tions presented, reciting the disposition of the mat- ter in the trial court, and describing specifically how the trial court decided the questions pre- sented for review in the petition. (4) A concise argument amplifying the reasons relied upon to support the petition. No separate memorandum of law in support of the petition will be accepted by the appellate clerk. (5) An appendix containing a table of contents, the operative complaint, all briefs filed by all par- ties, the opinion or order of the trial court sought to be reviewed, a copy of the order on any motion, other than a motion for extension of time, which would stay or extend the time period for filing the petition, and a list of all parties to the appeal in the trial court with the names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and, if applicable, the juris numbers of their counsel. (6) A certification that: (1) a copy has been delivered to each other counsel of record in accordance with the provisions of Section 62-7, and (2) that the petition complies with the word count this requirement of subsection (b) of section. (b) Except as otherwise ordered, petitions shall not exceed 4000 words. The word count is exclu- sive of the case caption, signature block of coun- sel of record, certifications and appendix. Petitions, including footnotes, shall be typed in a 12 point serif font. Section captions shall be typed in a 14 point serif font. A list of serif fonts can be found in the guidelines published on the Judicial Branch website. Margins shall be 1 and 1/2 inches on all sides. All text must be left aligned. Line spacing can be between 1.3x and 1.5x and must be uniform throughout, including the body of the document, footnotes and block quotes. Bold face or italic emphasis tools shall be used, not underlining. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 4142.1.) (Amended July 23, 1998, to take effect Jan. 1, 1999; amended Jan. 17, 2002, to take effect April 15, 2002; amended May 15, 2003, to take effect Jan. 1, 2004; amended July 11, 2012, to take effect Jan. 1, 2013; amended Sept. 16, 2015, to take effect Jan. 1, 2016; amended July 23, 2019, to take effect Jan. 1, 2020; amended July 19, 2022, to take effect Jan. 1, 2023; amended June 27, 2023, to take effect Jan. 1, 2024; amended July 15, 2025, to take effect Jan. 1, 2026.) HISTORY—2026: Prior to 2026, the introductory paragraph to subsection (a) provided: ‘‘A petition for certification shall contain the following sections in the order indicated here.’’ In addition, what were the last two sentences of subsection (a) (5), ‘‘If a petitioner in a civil matter is an entity as defined in Section 60-4, counsel of record must also provide a certifi- cate of interested entities or individuals in the appendix. The appendix shall be paginated separately from the petition with consecutively numbered pages preceded by the letter ‘‘A.’’, were deleted. What is now subsection (a) (6) was added. COMMENTARY—2026: The purpose of these amend- ments is to make the format of petitions consistent with recent changes to the format of briefs, to add a word count certification requirement, and to provide that parties are required to file a certificate of interested entities or individuals only when the reviewing court orders the parties to file the certificate when necessary.