Haynes v. Tulsa Public Schools Transit

Today the court holds that the cost deposit in a workers’ compensation review proceeding may be accepted as timely even though it was made after the lapse of the twenty-day period for filing a petition for review. The opinion’s rationale rests on the absence of an express command in Rule 1.101(a)1 that costs be remitted to the clerk simultaneously with the delivery of a petition for review (or at least within the maximum time for lodging the review proceeding). The court’s pronouncement is contrary to the statutory cost-deposit regime (20 O.S.Supp.1993 § 15)2 as well as to the cost…