General Motors Corp. v. Employment Security Commission

By a 3-2 decision, 3 Justices not participating, this Court affirmed the circuit judge’s order reversing a decision of the employment security commission’s appeal board which had granted unemployment compensation benefits to claimants, employees of the General Motors Corporation, 376 Mich 135. On its own motion the Court granted rehearing.1

The essential facts and principal questions presented by the appeal are stated fully and accurately in the opinions of Justices Dethmers and Black appearing at 376 Mich 135, 138, 143. It is my judgment that Justice Black was right in concluding that…