Hickman v. Tennessee Board of Paroles

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• holding that failure to file within the sixty day limit caused a party to forfeit his or her right to judicial review and required the court to decline to exercise jurisdiction, rather than depriving the court of subject matter jurisdiction
• holding that failure to file within the sixty day limit caused a party to forfeit his or her right to judicial review and required the court to decline to exercise jurisdiction, rather than depriving the court of subject matter jurisdiction
• holding that whether Rule 6.02 should be applied to allow an enlargement of time is “a function of the length of time that has passed since the deadline and the possible harm to the opposing party brought about by the failure to act within the deadline”
• calculating the limitations period from the date of the inmate’s last correspondence with the Tennessee Board of Paroles
• declining to find an abuse of discretion in the trial court’s grant of a motion for an enlargement of time even though the motion “was not supported by even a colorable explanation for the inability to file the motion” on time

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