Heal v. Maine Employment Security Commission

WATHEN, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from a Superior Court (Kennebec County) judgment affirming a decision of the Maine Employment Security Commission. We find that the agency’s denial of unemployment benefits was erroneously based upon inadmissible evidence and we reverse.

At the initial hearing on plaintiff’s unemployment compensation claim a deputy of the Employment Security Commission found that plaintiff had been discharged from employment because of misconduct. Pursuant to 26 M.R.S.A. § 1193(2) 1 (Supp. 1981), the deputy ordered plaintiff disqualified from receiving benefits until he had…