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Kirstin Arneson, Relator v. St Cloud Auto Sales.Com LLC, Department of Employment and Economic ...

Minn. Ct. App.March 16, 2026No. a250928

Case Details

Status
Unpublished
Procedural Posture
Certiorari review of unemployment law judge decision; affirmed on appeal

Related Laws

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Outcome

Court affirmed the unemployment law judge's decision that relator was ineligible for unemployment benefits due to employment misconduct, rejecting her arguments about insufficient evidence, statutory exceptions, and forfeited age discrimination claim.

Excerpt

On certiorari review, relator challenges the decision of an unemployment-law judge (ULJ) that relator is ineligible for unemployment benefits because she was discharged for employment misconduct. Relator argues that the ULJ's decision must be reversed for four reasons: (1) the decision was not supported by substantial evidence; (2) relator's conduct falls under certain statutory exceptions to employment misconduct; (3) the ULJ based its determination on a single incident of misconduct; and (4) relator's employer discharged her as a pretext for age discrimination. We conclude that substantial evidence supports the ULJ's misconduct determination, relator's conduct does not fall under any of the statutory exceptions relator cites, relator's conduct was a serious violation of her employer's reasonable expectations, and relator failed to raise a claim of age discrimination in proceedings before the ULJ and therefore forfeited the issue. Thus, we affirm.

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