Haines v. Department of Employment

Appellants petitioned the superior court for a writ of mandate directed against the department, compelling it to show cause why certain so-called arbitrary assessments it had made for unemployment insurance contributions claimed by it to be due and payable from appellants as employers pursuant to the Unemployment Insurance Act should not be canceled. Petitioners allege that, pursuant to the act, the department had on May 30, 1950, levied an arbitrary assessment against them for the reason “that no returns for contributions were filed by them”; that the assessment was on account of…