Summers v. Gatson

The appellant, Harold Summers, Jr., worked for the City of Charleston (the “City”) as a building inspector. The City terminated the appellant after he was accused of stealing an object from a condemned house. Appellant sought unemployment compensation benefits, which were awarded by an administrative law judge of the Board of Review of the West Virginia Department of Employment Security (the “Board”). The City appealed this decision to the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, which overturned the Board’s administrative law judge and found the appellant to be disqualified from the receipt of…