PCHB052002111

PCHBPollution Control Hearings Board of the State of Washington

The Board's Pre-Hearing Order in this case allowed each party to file a pre-hearing brief no greater than 30 pages in length. 1 To ensure that no party took unfair advantage, the Board's Order18 also explicitly required that: The standards of General Rule 14 adopted by the Supreme Court regarding paper size and formatting shall apply to all papers filed with the Board. In addition, the parties shall not manipulate document fonts or line spacing to attempt to crowd more words on each page. The font size shall be 12 points and the line spacing shall be double, except when blocking a22 quotation. AR 002111 Pre-Hearing Order at 9. The Pre-Hearing Order states at p. 9: "Pre-hearing briefs are limited to 30 pages in length, including attachments." ACC'S MOTION TO STRIKE PORT'_ t _:, _, '_IglLLLL FETTERMANLLP RachaelPaschalOsbom PREHEARING BRIEF - 1 1500 Puget Sound Plaza Attorney at Law 1325 Fourth Avenue 2421 West Mission Ave. Seattle, WA 98101-2509 Spokane, WA 99201 In compliance with the Board's Order, ACC and CASE filed a joint brief which was 60 pages in length (30 pages per party). That brief complied in all respects with the Board's requirements. To achieve that compliance, ACC and CASE had to pare down the submission from pages and, in doing so, was forced to eliminate key arguments and points critical to ACC and CASE's concerns, respectively, in order to meet the page limitation in the Pre-Hearing Order. In contrast, while it is not numbered that way, the…
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