174 [81' Kirk J RANKIN v. DIRECTOR, ARKANSAS EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPARTMENT E 03-51 200 S W 3cl 928 Court of Appeals of Arkansas Opinion delivered January 12, 2005 1. JURISDICTION - APPELLATE JURISDICTION - LOST WHEN MANDATE ISSUED - The appellate court loses jurisdiction to the trial court once the mandate is issued from the appellate court to the trial court, by analogy, the appellate court loses jurisdiction to the Board of Review once the mandate is issued; the appellate court's junsdic-non of Rankin v: Director, 82 Ark: App, 575, 120 S,W,3d 169 (2003) was lost on July 15, 2003, the date upon which the appellate court's mandate was issued, JURISDICTION - LIMITED TO REVIEW OF DECISIONS OF BOARD OF REVIEW - PETITION DISMISSED WHERE APPELLATE COURT LACKED JURISDICTION - In accordance with Ark: Code Ann: 5 11-10-529 (Supp, 2003), the court ot appeals' junsdicnon to review matters pertaining to an award or denial a unemployment benefits is limit-ed to review of decisions from the Board ofReview, the documentation now before the appellate court did not show that appellant had appealed from appellee's denial of benefits on account of his having been paid the maximum allowable benefits during a single benefit year, rather, it appeared that appellant had simply filed his petition with the appellate court, asking it to overturn appellee's decision, because the appellate court lacked junsdiction to review decisions of the appellee, the petition was dismissed Appeal from the Arkansas Board of Review; dismissed Appellant, pro se. Phyllis Edwards, for appellee DER CURIAM: This case has been the subject oftwo previous opinions, Rankin v. Director, 78 Ark. App. 174, 79 S.W.3d
885, reli'g denied, review denied (2002) (Rankin 1); and Rankin v. Direcwr,
82 Ark, App, 575, 120 S,W.3d 169 (2003) (Rankin 11), in which we
held that the appellant, Kirk J. Rankin, was entitled to receive
RANKIN R DIRECTOR, ARK: EMPL: SEC: DEPT ARK API)] Cite as 80 Ark App 174 (2n1)5) 175 unemployment benefits: Rankin now has filed a petition with this court asking that we direct the Arkansas Employment Secunty Department (ESD) to pay him those unemployment benefits_ Because we lack jurisdiction to consider the petition, we must dismiss In Rankin I, we reversed the Board of Review's denial of Rankin's claim for unemployment benefits, holding that the Board's finding that Rankin had voluntarily left his last work was not supported by substantial evidence We remanded the case to the Board "for further proceedings consistent with [our] opinion_" On remand, the Board, instead of directing the ESD to pay benefits to Rankm, conducted another evidentiary hearing and determined therefrom that Rankin was disqualified for benefits because of misconduct connected with the work: In Rankin II we again reversed the Board, holding that its decision to deny benefits to Rankin on grounds of misconduct contravened the doctrine of the law of the case: We remanded with instructions to the Board to enter an order requiring the ESD to pay unemployment benefits to Rankin: We also directed the Board to certify the record of its decision to this court As directed, the Board provided to this court a certified record of its decision, dated July 3, 2001, in which it directed the ESD "to award the claimant unemployment insurance benefits to which he is entitled In his present petition. Rankin alleges that he has on numerous occasions requested ESD to pay him the benefits to which he is entitled, but that his requests have been to no avail: ESD has responded to Rankin's petition alleging that, as a result ot its payment of benefits to Rankin in connection with a subsequent claim during the same benefit year as his initial claim, Rankin had already been paid the maximum benefits to which he is entitled under Ark_Code Ann: 5 11-10-504, and that Rankin lc lint qualified to receive any additional benefits on account of unemployment during the same benefit year Neither Rankin's petition nor ESD's response advise this court of the pendency or status of any proceedings before the ESD, the appeal tribunal, or the Board of Review relating to Rankin's efforts to collect the disputed benefits: [1] The appellate court loses Jurisdiction to the trial court once the mandate is issued from the appellate court to the trial court, Barclay Farm Credit Sews., 340 Ark: 65, 8 S:W,3d 517 (2000), by analogy, the appellate court loses Jurisdiction to the
176 [89 Board once the mandate is issued. This court's jurisdiction of Rankin II, supra, was lost on July 15, 2003, the date upon which our mandate was issued: [2] In accordance with Ark, Code Ann, C 11-10-529 (Supp: 2003), the court of appeals' jurisdiction to review matters pertaining to an award or denial of unemployment benefits is limited to the review of decisions from the Board of Review: The documentation now before this court does not show that Rankin has appealed from the ESD's denial of benefits on aLLount of his having been paid the maximum allowable benefits during a single benefit year: Rather, it appears that Rankin has simply filed his petition with this court, asking us to overturn ESD's decision: Because we lack jurisdiction to review decisions of the ESD, the petition must be dismissed. Petition dismissed,
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