Jamal v. Thurmond

Andrews, Presiding Judge.

Pursuant to the grant of his discretionary appeal application, Ali Jamal appeals the superior court’s affirmation, on writ of certiorari, of the board of review’s affirmation of denial of unemployment benefits by the Department of Labor.

The appropriate standard of review to be applied to issues of fact on writ of certiorari to the superior court is whether the decision below was supported by any evidence. On appeal to this Court, “our duty is not to review whether the record supports the superior court’s decision but whether the record supports the initial decision of…