Legal Opinion
Risk v. Eastside Beverage
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided June 24, 2003No. C0-02-1920PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MINGE, Judge.
The commissioner’s representative determined that it was employment misconduct for the relator to have an alcohol concentration level over the applicable legal limit during work hours and while driving his employer’s vehicle. We affirm and reject relator’s claims that he could only be discharged upon conviction of the criminal offense of DWI or loss of his driver’s license under the implied consent law.
FACTS
Relator, Thomas Risk, was a delivery truck driver for Eastside Beverage, respondent, from April 9, 1979, until January 17, 2002. Eastside is a distributor of alcoholic…
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