Short answer. No. Rule 46, Section 5 provides that only pleadings required by the court shall be allowed, and all other pleadings and papers may be filed only with leave of court. You cannot file additional pleadings freely once your original petition is before the Court of Appeals.
What the law says
The court may dismiss the petition outright with specific reasons for such dismissal or require the respondent to file a comment on the same within ten days from notice.
Rule 46, Section 5 — Action by the court. Read the full provision →
What the law says
Only pleadings required by the court shall be allowed.
Rule 46, Section 5 — Action by the court. Read the full provision →
What the law says
All other pleadings and papers may be filed only with leave of court.
Rule 46, Section 5 — Action by the court. Read the full provision →
What happens right after you file your petition
Rule 46, Section 5 describes what the court does first with your original petition: the court may dismiss the petition outright with specific reasons for such dismissal or require the respondent to file a comment on the same within ten days from notice. From this point, the pleadings that follow in the case are not left to either party's own initiative to file as they wish.
Only pleadings the court asks for are automatically allowed
The section is direct about what comes next: only pleadings required by the court shall be allowed. If the court orders a comment, a reply, or some other specific submission, that pleading is allowed because the court called for it. Nothing in the rule gives either side an automatic right to keep filing pleadings on their own schedule after that.
Anything beyond that needs the court's permission first
For every pleading or paper outside what the court has required, the section imposes a gatekeeping step: all other pleadings and papers may be filed only with leave of court. You would need to ask the court's permission before filing it, rather than simply submitting it and expecting it to be accepted as part of the case record without objection.
What this means for your petition
Once your original petition is with the Court of Appeals, the pleadings that get filed afterward follow the track this section sets, not your own preference. If the court has not asked for a particular submission, filing it requires leave of court first. Treating additional pleadings as something you can file at will, without either a court requirement or leave, is not what Section 5 allows.
Why the section is written this way
Section 5 opens with the court's own first move on the petition, dismissal outright or a required comment, before it turns to what pleadings are allowed afterward. Reading the two parts together shows the pattern: the court controls the pace and shape of the proceeding from the outset, rather than leaving either side free to keep adding filings on their own initiative once the petition is in. Asking for leave is how you bring something to the court's attention that it did not itself call for.