Cook v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

I respectfully dissent. I believe that Claimant is entitled to appeal nunc pro tunc to the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review.1

An historical review surrounding the allowance of appeals nunc pro tune reveals that originally the standard permitting such appeals was one limited to “delays resulting from extraordinary circumstances involving fraud or some breakdown in the court’s operations.” Nixon v. Nixon, 329 Pa. 256,198 A. 154 (1938).

This well settled standard was expanded, however, by our Supreme Court’s decision in Bass v. Commonwealth, 485 Pa. 256, 401 A.2d 1133 (1979), a detañed…