Rule 2 Suspension of Rules

Here's a plain English summary of this rule.

The supreme court has the power to set aside its own appeal rules if there's a good reason to do so. This can happen because the court decides on its own to skip a rule, or because one of the people involved in the case asks the court to do it. The main reason courts use this power is to speed things up and get a decision made faster.

If the court decides to suspend a rule, it will tell the parties how the case should move forward instead. This gives the court flexibility to handle unusual situations that the standard rules don't cover well. However, there's one limit: the court cannot use this power to get around Rule 26(b), which deals with deadlines for filing certain documents. That specific rule stays in place no matter what.