Pacific Legal Foundation v. Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board

Opinion

NEWMAN, J.

The California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (board) challenges a judgment declaring invalid its decision that *106claimant Thurman Carroll was eligible for benefits. (P-B-292 (Carroll) (1976).) Plaintiff Pacific Legal Foundation cross-appeals from a post-judgment order that denied its motion for attorneys’ fees.

Plaintiff sought declaratory relief under Unemployment Insurance Code sections 409 through 409.2. Those statutes permit the board to designate certain of its decisions as precedents, subject to court challenge by “interested person[s] and organization^].”1…