2023 QCCA 7, 2023 QCCA 7

Tanny c. United States Attorney General 2023 QCCA 7 COURT OF APPEAL CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC REGISTRY OF MONTREAL No.: 500-09-030217-228 ( 500-06-000972-196 ) MINUTES OF HEARING DATE: January 6, 2023 THE HONOURABLE MICHEL BEAUPRÉ, J.A.

APPELLANT COUNSEL Julie Tanny Mtre Andrea Grass M tre Jeffrey Orenstein ( Groupe de droit des consommateurs ) By videoconference RESPONDENT COUNSEL united states attorney general Mtre Antoine Van Audenrode ( Gowling WLG (Canada) ) By videoconference IMPLEADED PARTIES COUNSEL attorney general of canada Mtre Sarom Bahk ( Ministère de la justice Canada ) Absent royal victoria hospital mcgill university ABSENT AND UNREPRESENTED DESCRIPTION: Amended application for an increase in the page limit for the appellant's memorandum ( Art. 368 , 369 , 370 , 374 C.C.P. and art. 58 Regulation of the Court of the Appeal of Quebec in Civil Matters ) .

Clerk at the hearing : Mélanie Camiré Courtroom: RC-18 HEARING 9:46 Commencement of the hearing. Identification of counsel. The judge addresses to the parties. 9:48 Submissions by Mtre Orenstein. 9:49 BY THE JUDGE: Judgment – see page 4. 9:51 Conclusion of the hearing.

Mélanie Camiré, Clerk at the hearing JUDGMENT [ 1 ] CONSIDERING appellants’ Amended Application for an Increase in the Page Limit for the Appellant’s Memorandum (the “ Amended Application ”) and the solemn declaration of one of its attorneys in its support ; [ 2 ] CONSIDERING Chief Justice Savard’s management measure dated November 9, 2022, concerning the number of pages of the memoranda; [ 3 ] CONSIDERING the nature of the appeal and of the issues it raises, as it appears in more practical terms from the draft memorandum appended to the Amended Application under

Schedule 3; [ 4 ] CONSIDERING the position of the respondent and of the impleaded parties with regards the Amended Application ; [ 5 ] CONSIDERING sections 48, 50 and 58 of the Regulation of the Court of Appeal of Quebec in Civil Matters [1] ; FOR THESE REASONS, THE UNDERSIGNED : [ 6 ] GRANTS PARTIALLY the Amended Application for an Increase in the Page Limit for the Appellant’s Memorandum ; [ 7 ] AUTHORIZES Appelant to file a memorandum with parts I to IV containing a maximum of 26 pages; [ 8 ] AUTHORIZES the Respondent and the impleaded parties, these latter taken as one single party, to file a memorandum with parts I to IV containing a maximum of 26 pages; [ 9 ] TAKES NOTICE of Appellant’s undertaking to file its memorandum no later than January 13, 2023; [ 10 ] WITHOUT LEGAL COSTS .

MICHEL BEAUPRÉ, J.A.