Maples v. State

I agree with Justice Ransom that the judicial branch does not gain jurisdiction until an administrative agency’s order is appealed pursuant to a statute conferring the jurisdiction on an appellate court and that the appeal in this case was timely because it was taken within the time prescribed by the statute. Unlike Justice Ransom, however, I am not in “strong accord” with the rule in Ammerman v. Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. In my view, Ammerman was incorrectly decided in significant part,1 and its rule of exclusive jurisdiction in this Court to prescribe matters touching procedures in the…