Calloway-Gaines v. Crime Victim Servs. Comm’n, 616 N.W.2d 674 (Mich. 2000)

Cases | Calloway-Gaines v. Crime Victim Servs. Comm¿n, 616 N.W.2d 674 (Mich. 2000) | 2018

The plaintiff sought crime victims compensation following her husband’s murder. The Crime Victim Services Commission denied most of the benefits that she sought. The plaintiff attempted to appeal to the appellate court, which denied her delayed application for leave to appeal for lack of jurisdiction on the ground that Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 18.358 did not permit appeals more than thirty days after the commission’s decision. The supreme court reversed, holding that § 18.358 did not make the thirty-day appeal period jurisdictional, and that a delayed appeal under MCR 7.205(F) was available. Section 18.358 did not reflect an intention to make the specified time a jurisdictional limitation.