DeFelice v. Employment Security Department

¶27 (dissenting) — The initial decision of the administrative law judge (ALJ) in this matter, which the commissioner of the Employment Security Department adopted and the superior court then affirmed, was not based on the ALJ’s resolution of factual disputes. It was based on four legal conclusions urged by the department: (1) that the written employment agreements entered into at *794the time Dr. Armand DeFelice’s daughters joined his practice could not be replaced years later by a partnership relationship without terminating the employment agreements in writing, (2) that the Washington revised…