This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
An appeals court has the power to bend its own rules if a case calls for it. If there's a good enough reason, or if the court decides on its own that a case needs to move faster, it can skip or change most of the normal procedural requirements. The court can then set up special steps for handling that specific case.
There are limits to this power, though. The court cannot suspend certain core rules that control jurisdiction, meaning the rules that decide whether a case can be heard at all and within what deadlines. These protected rules cover things like when someone must file an appeal, when a court has authority to act, and certain filing deadlines. Those specific requirements stay in place no matter what.
For anyone involved in an appeal, this means most procedural steps are flexible if there's a strong reason to change them. But the basic rules about deadlines and the court's authority to hear a case are fixed and cannot be waived, even for a good reason.
