When a party submits documentary evidence in an administrative adjudication, what must accompany it for the other side?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In practice material of this kind, we check the filing receipt and the paper itself, since the copies must be attached when the evidence is filed; we also check the party list or participation application, because the number of copies turns on how many other parties there are.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the requirement literally: alongside the petition for adjudication, supplementary petition, answer, application to intervene or supplementary brief, documentary evidence must be filed with as many copies as there are other parties, so each party can hold its own set.
Another reading notes that the provision fixes only the number of copies to be attached at filing, leaving open how a later party joining the adjudication, or a change in the number of parties, affects copies already filed with the committee.
Your judgment
If another party joins after the evidence was filed, how should the file show whether copies for that party were ever supplied?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change how the number of copies is counted, or if a decision of the relevant committee's panel explains what counts as an 'other party' for this purpose.