Yardville Supply Co. v. Board of Review, Dept. of Labor

The majority’s decision to deny unemployment benefits to a truck driver who loses his license due to a driving under the influence violation may undoubtedly be good policy, but in *379reaching its result the Court departs from the language of the act and leaves us without an organizing principle for future decisions.

I hold no brief for drunk drivers. But as judges we do not have the power to punish their conduct more than has the Legislature. To say that this driver “quit” work is to say that words mean what we want them to mean. Rather, the Court should state clearly that it has determined in…