Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal against the refusal to enter on the late deadline-extension request was moot after reconsideration.
Decisão extraída
Yes. Because the commission reconsidered and set aside its 17 June 2002 decision, the appeal had become moot and had to be removed from the docket.
Fundamentação extraída
The challenged decision no longer had independent legal effect after the commission’s later reconsideration decision of 11 July 2002, which also accepted the appellants' submissions into the file.