Arkansas Employment Security Department v. Mellon

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

This matter relates to whether appellee Barbara Mellon was afforded an opportunity to be heard on why she did not appear at a telephone hearing before the Appeal Tribunal of the Employment Security Department. The Board of Review of the Employment Security Department dismissed Mellon’s request to be heard, after she failed to appear at a second telephone hearing. The Arkansas Court of Appeals in an opinion handed down on March 29, 1995, remanded the case to the Board of Review to examine whether Mellon was denied her statutory or due process rights. In a supplemental…