{
  "id": 6138123,
  "name": "Rebekah Priest CYPHERS v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE",
  "name_abbreviation": "Cyphers v. United Parcel Service",
  "decision_date": "1999-02-10",
  "docket_number": "CA 98-498",
  "first_page": "107",
  "last_page": "109",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "65 Ark. App. 107"
    },
    {
      "type": "parallel",
      "cite": "985 S.W.2d 330"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ark. Ct. App.",
    "id": 13370,
    "name": "Arkansas Court of Appeals"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 34,
    "name_long": "Arkansas",
    "name": "Ark."
  },
  "cites_to": [
    {
      "cite": "58 Ark. App. 282",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ark. App.",
      "case_ids": [
        6140753
      ],
      "weight": 2,
      "year": 1997,
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
        "/ark-app/58/0282-01"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "analysis": {
    "cardinality": 276,
    "char_count": 3832,
    "ocr_confidence": 0.757,
    "pagerank": {
      "raw": 6.380125665320789e-08,
      "percentile": 0.3938820371380725
    },
    "sha256": "3df34c4998836477c6056c104f1bf1a514d4a8ca42b86221a0e8bcd618c094c5",
    "simhash": "1:fdabcb0df1adaf59",
    "word_count": 632
  },
  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:05:27.101250+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Robbins, C.J., and Bird, J., agree."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "Rebekah Priest CYPHERS v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Margaret Meads, Judge. This\nis the second appeal to this court of this workers\u2019 compensation matter. In CA 97-5, Priest v. United Parcel Serv., 58 Ark. App. 282, 950 S.W.2d 476 (1997), appellant challenged the Commission\u2019s determination that she sustained a five-percent impairment to the body as a whole. This rating was based upon an independent medical evaluation by Dr. Jim Moore. Appellant sought to cross-examine Dr. Moore at the hearing before an administrative law judge, but the law judge failed to issue a subpoena at appellant\u2019s request. At the hearing on her claim, appellant objected to the introduction of Dr. Moore\u2019s report arguing that she was denied her due-process right to cross-examine Dr. Moore. Nonetheless, the report was admitted into evidence. The law judge then cited Dr. Moore\u2019s report and held that his rating of five-percent impairment was more accurate than that of appellant\u2019s treating physician, who had assigned a rating of fifteen-percent impairment. The full Commission affirmed and adopted the decision of the law judge.\nIn the first appeal we held that we could not reach the merits of appellant\u2019s due-process argument because the Commission faded to make findings of fact in support of its conclusion that appellant was not denied due process, and we remanded for the Commission to make specific findings of fact on the issue. We specifically stated that we did not reach the merits of appellant\u2019s appeal; we did not decide whether appellant had a valid constitutional claim; and we did not decide whether there was substantial evidence to support the Commission\u2019s award.\nOn remand, the Commission again held that appellant\u2019s due-process rights were not violated, and this appeal, CA 98-498, followed. Appellant now argues, as she did in the prior appeal, that she was denied due process of law. Unfortunately, we are again unable to reach the merits of this matter because appellant has failed to comply with the briefing requirements of Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 4-2 (a) (6).\nArkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-2(a)(6) provides that on a second or subsequent appeal, the abstract shall include a condensation of all pertinent portions of the record filed on any prior appeal. Appellant has failed to provide us with any abstract of the record filed on her prior appeal. Neither has appellant provided us with any argument regarding whether there is substantial evidence to support the Commission\u2019s award.\nWhen appellant\u2019s abstract is insufficient, Rule 4-2(b)(2) provides that the judgment may be affirmed for noncompliance with the Rule, or if the court considers that action to be unduly harsh, appellant\u2019s attorney may be allowed time to revise the brief, at his own expense, to conform to Rule 4-2(a)(6). In the instant case, the cover sheet of each party\u2019s brief indicates the case numbers of both the first and second appeal. Further, appellant\u2019s statement of the case says that this case \u201cinvolves a consolidation of two appeals,\u201d and it also discusses both CA 97-5 and CA 98-498. Under the circumstances, we conclude that affirmance would be unduly harsh, and allow appellant to file a new brief conforming to the abstracting requirement of Rule 4-2(a)(6). Appellant\u2019s revised brief is to be filed no later than forty days from the date of this opinion. Appellee may then respond within thirty days of the date appellant\u2019s brief is filed, and appellant\u2019s reply brief will be due fifteen days after appellee\u2019s brief is filed. See Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 4-4.\nRemanded for rebriefing.\nRobbins, C.J., and Bird, J., agree.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Margaret Meads, Judge. This"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Tolley Brooks, P.A., by: Jay N. Tolley, for appellant.",
      "Friday, Eldredge & Clark, by: James C. Baker and Betty J. Demory, for appellee."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Rebekah Priest CYPHERS v. UNITED PARCEL SERVICE\nCA 98-498\n985 S.W.2d 330\nCourt of Appeals of Arkansas Division III\nOpinion delivered February 10, 1999\nTolley Brooks, P.A., by: Jay N. Tolley, for appellant.\nFriday, Eldredge & Clark, by: James C. Baker and Betty J. Demory, for appellee."
  },
  "file_name": "0107-01",
  "first_page_order": 129,
  "last_page_order": 131
}