Bowns v. City of Port Huron

Claimant, John R. Bowns, appeals as of right the circuit court’s reversal of a decision of the Michigan Employment Security Commission Board of Review, which had reversed the Michigan Employment Security Commission’s (MESC) denial of unemployment compensation benefits to claimant. The issue is whether the claimant’s observation of and participation in illegal gambling activities, while off duty from his job with the police department, was sufficiently connected to his work to justify denial of unemployment compensation benefits. We believe it was.

The facts are undisputed. Claimant was a…