Bacic v. General Motors Corp.

Plaintiff appeals, by leave granted, from an opinion and order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board dismissing his appeal from a referee’s award for failure to file an appellate brief.

For purposes of this appeal, only the following facts are relevant. Plaintiff filed an application for review of the decision of an administrative law judge to the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board. The board sent the parties a form letter advising them that appellant had 30 days in which to file the transcript of proceedings, or a letter from a court reporter attesting that a transcript was so ordered.

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