De St. Germain v. Employment Division

This is the kind of case which generates a judicial version of the primal scream. Petitioner, a certified nursing assistant, seeks judicial review of an order of the Employment Appeals Board which affirmed and adopted an order of a referee denying him unemployment compensation benefits on the ground that he voluntarily left work without good cause. Petitioner urges five assignments of error, most of which are well taken. We reverse.

This case began to leave the tracks at an early administrative level, never to right itself. Petitioner, who worked for some years as a health care professional…