CIT Amends Rules 6, 15 and Form 13
The Court of International Trade earlier this month approved amendments to its Form 13, which is used to disclose corporate affiliations and financial interest. The changes will take effect Aug. 1, the court announced.
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The changes instruct attorneys to list the parent corporation of any party to a CIT case and, if there are any changes to the submitted information, to file those alterations within seven days of the changes. The new form also says that if a party's parent corporation "is not publicly-known or disclosable," the attorney may confidentially submit the name of the parent corporation.
In a separate notice, the court said that it proposed amendments to Rules 6 and 15. The court said comments on the changes should be submitted to the court by July 29.
Rule 6 governs computing and extending time. The proposed amendment would add Juneteenth as a legal holiday for the purposes of computing time.
Rule 15 governs amended and supplemental pleadings and currently says a party can amend its pleading "once as a matter of course within" 21 days after serving it or, if responsive pleading is required, 21 days after service of a responsive pleading. The amended rule would replace the word "within" with the phrase "no later than."