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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board dismissed Mary Jane Rhodes' petition for reconsideration as untimely and successive. The petition was filed over three years after the Board's August 29, 2007 order denying a previous reconsideration. California law requires petitions for reconsideration to be filed within twenty days of service of a final order. Since the applicant had already filed a prior petition on the same issue after failing to prevail, a subsequent petition was impermissible.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board dismissed Mary Jane Rhodes' petition for reconsideration as untimely and successive. The petition was filed over three years after the Board's August 29, 2007 order denying a previous reconsideration. California law requires petitions for reconsideration to be filed within twenty days of service of a final order. Since the applicant had already filed a prior petition on the same issue after failing to prevail, a subsequent petition was impermissible.
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