Court Opinion

ID: 9534604
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:41:19.497717+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:31:58.530918
License: Public Domain

RUSSON, Associate Presiding Judge
(concurring in result):
I concur in the result. We have previously set forth the proper standard of re*1297view for appeals from the Industrial Commission’s denial of compensation under Utah Code Ann. § 35-1-45 (1988) in Cross v. Board of Review, 824 P.2d 1202, 1203-04 (Utah App.1992). At the time of that decision, the proper post-UAPA standard of review for appeals under section 35-1-45 was an issue of first impression in Utah. In Cross, we determined that section 35-1-45 contained no express or implied grant of discretion to the Industrial Commission. Id. at 1204. That decision stands unchallenged as the correct law on the very point raised in this ease, and the majority expressly acknowledges this in its opinion. Thus, in light of Cross, and the doctrine of stare decisis as enunciated in State v. Thurman, 846 P.2d 1256, 1268-71 (Utah 1993), I find the majority’s protracted examination of the appropriate standard of review in this case unwarranted.