2007 Minnesota Statutes

175A.05 QUORUM.
A majority of the judges of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals shall constitute
a quorum for the exercise of the powers conferred and the duties imposed on the Workers'
Compensation Court of Appeals except that all appeals shall be heard by no more than a panel of
three of the five judges unless the case appealed is determined to be of exceptional importance by
the chief judge prior to assignment of the case to a panel, or by a three-fifths vote of the judges
prior to assignment of the case to a panel or after the case has been considered by the panel
but prior to the service and filing of the decision. A vacancy shall not impair the ability of the
remaining judges of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals to exercise all the powers and
perform all of the duties of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals.
History: 1981 c 346 s 46; 1983 c 301 s 145; 1990 c 506 art 1 s 3