Rankin v. Director, Arkansas Employment Security Department

This case has been the subject of two previous opinions, Rankin v. Director, 78 Ark. App. 174, 79 S.W.3d 885, reh’g denied, review denied (2002) (Rankin I); and Rankin v. Director, 82 Ark. App. 575, 120 S.W.3d 169 (2003) (Rankin II), in which we held that the appellant, Kirk J. Rankin, was entitled to receive unemployment benefits. Rankin now has filed a petition with this court asking that we direct the Arkansas Employment Security Department (ESD) to pay him those unemployment benefits. Because we lack jurisdiction to consider the petition, we must dismiss it.

In Rankin I, we reversed the…