Should appellate rights be quashed when a lawyer has filed a timely statement explaining the reasons for his or her appeal but has failed to personally serve the trial judge?
The state Supreme Court will take up the question of whether the loss of appellate rights is justified by the failure to personally serve a trial judge a statement of matters complained of on appeal. The court granted allocatur on the issue in Berg v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. Inc. Aug. 19.
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