Case Title: Coleman v. United Parcel Service

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State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1990-06-01T00:00:00Z

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ENTRY ORDER

                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 90-058

                              JUNE TERM, 1990


Ronald Coleman                    }          APPEALED FROM:
                                  }
                                  }
     v.                           }          Commissioner
                                  }          Labor & Industry
                                  }
United Parcel Service             }
                                  }          DOCKET NO. A-27178


             In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:

     In this appeal from a decision of the commissioner of labor and
industry granting plaintiff disability benefits, defendant United Parcel
Service claims that the award must be reversed because it was not made
within 60 days of hearing as mandated by 21 V.S.A. { 664 ("Within sixty days
[of hearing], the commissioner shall make h[er] award . . . .").

     Arguing that the "plain meaning" of { 664 evidences legislative intent
that workers' compensation awards be "quick," Kittell v. Vermont Weather-
board, Inc., 138 Vt. 439, 441,