Dicerbo v. Nordberg

INTRODUCTION

Part I. Background

On July 24, 1997 this Court heard this matter on stipulated facts and took it under advisement following a jury waived trial. The plaintiffs, Ellen Dicerbo et al., make four claims against the defendant Nils Nordberg, both individually and as the Commissioner of the Department of Employment Training (DET).1 First, plaintiffs claim that DET’s consistency policy that examiners are bound by DET’s subregulatory legal interpretations violates state and federal law and constitutions. Second, plaintiffs state that DETs failure to acknowledge Board of Review and District…