Kissinger v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “This question should be distinguished from the issue presented in the case ... [of] Morris v. Stroud, 317 Ark. 628 , 883 S.W.2d 1 (1994), which dealt with the authority of the trial court to extend the time for filing the record. Unquestionably, the trial court lacks authority to do so. This does not, however, speak to the authority of the appellate court to hear the appeal. If the timely lodging of the record on appeal was truly an element of the appellate court’s jurisdiction, then it would follow that cases such as Thomas v. Arkansas State Plant Board (citation omitted), where the late filing of the record was permitted due to the Jonesboro tornado, the appellate court derived its jurisdiction from a natural calamity. I cannot believe that our jurisdiction is dependent upon the whims of the weather. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 89 Ark. App. 105 - Waste Management & Transportation Insurance v. Estridge