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176.471 REVIEW BY SUPREME COURT ON CERTIORARI.
    Subdivision 1. Time for seeking review; grounds. Where the Workers' Compensation Court
of Appeals has made an award or disallowance of compensation or other order, a party in interest
who acts within 30 days from the date the party was served with notice of the order may have the
order reviewed by the Supreme Court on certiorari upon one of the following grounds:
(1) the order does not conform with this chapter;
(2) the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals committed any other error of law; or
(3) the findings of fact and order were unsupported by substantial evidence in view of the
entire record as submitted.
    Subd. 2. Extension of time for seeking review or for filing other papers. Where cause is
shown within the 30-day period referred to in subdivision 1, the Supreme Court may extend the
time for seeking review on certiorari. The Supreme Court may also extend the time for filing any
other paper which this chapter requires to be filed with that court.
    Subd. 3. Service of writ and bond; filing fee. To effect a review upon certiorari, the party
shall serve a writ of certiorari and a bond upon the administrator of the Workers' Compensation
Court of Appeals within the 30-day period referred to in subdivision 1. The party shall also at this
time pay to the administrator the fee prescribed by rule 103.01 of the Rules of Civil Appellate
Procedure which shall be disposed of in the manner provided by that rule.
    Subd. 4. Contents of writ. The writ of certiorari required by subdivision 3 shall show that a
review is to be had in the Supreme Court of the proceedings of the Workers' Compensation
Court of Appeals upon which the order is based.
    Subd. 5. Bond. The bond required by subdivision 3 shall be executed in such amount and
with such sureties as the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals directs and approves. The
bond shall be conditioned to pay the cost of the review.
    Subd. 6. Transmittal of fee and return. When the writ of certiorari has been served upon
the administrator of the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals, the bond has been filed, and the
filing fee has been paid, the administrator shall immediately transmit to the clerk of the appellate
courts that filing fee and the return to the writ of certiorari and bond.
    Subd. 7. Jurisdiction vested. Filing such return and payment of the filing fee referred to in
subdivision 6 vests the Supreme Court with jurisdiction of the case.
    Subd. 8. Return of proceedings transmitted to court. Within 30 days after the writ
of certiorari, bond, and filing fee have been filed with the administrator of the Workers'
Compensation Court of Appeals, the administrator shall transmit to the clerk of the appellate
courts a true and complete return of the proceedings of the Workers' Compensation Court of
Appeals under review, or the part of those proceedings necessary to allow the Supreme Court
to review properly the questions presented.
The Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals shall certify the return of the proceedings
under its seal. The petitioner or relator shall pay to the administrator of the Workers' Compensation
Court of Appeals the reasonable expense of preparing the return.
    Subd. 9. Application of rules governing appeals in civil actions. When the return of the
proceedings before the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals has been filed with the clerk of
the appellate courts, the Supreme Court shall hear and dispose of the matter as in other civil cases.
    Subd. 10. Rules. The Supreme Court may adopt rules which are consistent with this chapter
and necessary or convenient to the impartial and speedy disposition of these cases.
History: 1953 c 755 s 64; 1971 c 686 s 1; 1973 c 388 s 121-124; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1975 c
359 s 23; 1976 c 134 s 78; 1976 c 239 s 37; 1981 c 346 s 128-131; 1983 c 247 s 72-74; 1983 c
301 s 152; 1986 c 444

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