McDowell v. Employment Department

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding, as a matter of law, that the claimant, who resigned to avoid the grave consequences associated with discharge, had good cause to leave work, and that the board “was obligated to so conclude”
• describing test under administrative rule defining when an employee has left work for “good cause”
• “Long-standing Court of Appeals decisions hold that * * * an employer has the burden of proving that a discharge was for misconduct.”
• reviewing for errors of law the board’s good cause determination whether a reasonable person in the employee’s circumstances would believe that the circumstances were so grave that there was no reasonable alternative but to leave work
• where agency’s findings are not challenged, those are the facts for purposes of judicial review
• “[I]t is beyond dispute that the consequences of a discharge for [the] claimant were grave.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).