West Jordan v. Morrison

How courts have described this case

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

• applying similar prior versions of the Act and UAC rules and holding that an employee was involuntarily discharged and eligible for benefits when his employer terminated him immediately upon receipt of his two week resignation notice
• reasoning, under Utah’s corollary to West Virginia Code § 21A-6-3(l), that “the language of the statute is unambiguous: the week in which the claimant actually leaves work is the determinative factor regarding subsequent eligibility”
• \[I]t is not the duty of this Court to assess the wisdom of the statutory scheme.\
• \[Ilt is not the duty of this Court to assess the wisdom of the statutory scheme.\
• “an 'administrative interpretation out of harmony and contrary to the express terms of a statute cannot be given weight”’
• where “ordinary meaning of the terms results in an application that is neither unreasonably confused, inoperable, nor in blatant contradiction to the express purpose of the statute, it is not the duty of this Court to assess the wisdom of the statutory scheme”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-06-24· cited 170×
• Safeco Insurance v. Meyering
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-08-23· cited 91×
• Sullivan v. Scoular Grain Co. of Utah
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-04-22· cited 71×
• State v. Herrera
  Utah Supreme Court· 1995-04-21· cited 69×
• State ex rel. Z.C.
  Utah Supreme Court· 2007-07-17· cited 62×
• Doit, Inc. v. Touche, Ross & Co.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-08-02· cited 57×
• Murray City v. Hall
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-04-13· cited 54×
• Perrine v. Kennecott Mining Corp.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-02-20· cited 45×
• Gohler v. Wood
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-07-05· cited 43×
• Gleave v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-01-28· cited 36×
• Amax Magnesium Corp. v. Utah State Tax Commission
  Utah Supreme Court· 1990-07-18· cited 34×
• Dillard Department Stores, Inc. v. Polinsky
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1995-04-21· cited 33×
• Versluis v. Guaranty National Companies
  Utah Supreme Court· 1992-10-30· cited 32×
• Kelson v. Salt Lake County
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-12-12· cited 28×
• Cox v. Laycock
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-01-30· cited 24×
• Ferro v. Utah Department of Commerce
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1992-03-03· cited 23×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Clyde
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-07-19· cited 22×
• Belnorth Petroleum Corp. v. State Tax Commission
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1993-01-12· cited 21×
• Coleman v. MISSISSIPPI EMP. SEC. COM'N
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-10-05· cited 21×
• Horne v. Horne
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1987-05-18· cited 20×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Millett v. Clark Clinic Corp.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-03-06· cited 66×
• Kennecott Copper Corp. Employees v. Department of Employment Security of the Industrial Commission
  Utah Supreme Court· 1962-06-19· cited 31×
• Continental Oil Co. v. Board of Review of Industrial Commission
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-08-05· cited 30×
• Guy Gannett Publishing Co. v. Maine Employment Security Commission
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-03-20· cited 27×
• Gord v. Salt Lake City
  Utah Supreme Court· 1967-11-27· cited 19×
• Amado Unemployment Compensation Case
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-14· cited 14×
• Ennis v. Employment Division
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1978-12-04· cited 11×
• Knox v. Thomas
  Utah Supreme Court· 1973-07-10· cited 3×