Bringman v. New Albertsons, Inc.

I am unable to join in the Court’s opinion. While I agree with Justice Sehroeder’s characterization of Albertson’s5 rather egregious conduct, my dissent is more narrowly focused to the issue of whether Bringman sought to obtain unemployment benefits by willfully making a false statement or willfully failing to report a material fact. Bringman had three alternatives to select on the Department of Labor’s (DOL) on-line claim form: (1) quit; (2) terminated/discharged; ' or (3) lay off due to lack of work. Under the particular facts of this ease, his selection of any of the three would have been…