Branson v. Director, Arkansas Employment Security Department

Dissenting Opinion on Denial of Motion to File Belated Appeal

Arkansas Code Annotated section ll-10-529(a) (1987) provides that any party entitled to a decision of the Board of Review shall have twenty days from the date the decision is mailed to her last known address in which to request a judicial review thereof by filing in the Court of Appeals a petition for review of the decision. The Board of Review decision from which appellant seeks to appeal was mailed'on January 4, 2002. According to the statute, appellant’s petition for review should have been filed in our court no later than…