Early v. Employment Department
Case Details
- Judge(s)
- Hadlock, Sercombe, Tookey
- Status — whether other courts must follow this ruling
- Published
- Procedural Posture — the stage the case had reached
- appeal
- State
- Oregon
- Circuit
- 9th Circuit
Related Laws
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Claim Types
Outcome
The court reversed the Employment Appeals Board's denial of unemployment benefits, concluding that the claimant established good cause for voluntarily leaving work. The court found that a reasonable and prudent person with depression would have considered the workplace situation (escalating conflict with supervisor, suicidal ideation, failed resolution attempts) so grave as to leave no reasonable alternative to resignation.
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