Graves v. Culp, Inc.

MARTIN, Chief Judge.

Respondent-appellant Employment Security Commission of North Carolina (ESC) appeals from an order of the Alamance County Superior Court setting aside ESC’s disqualification of petitioner-appellee from receiving unemployment insurance benefits and remanding the matter to the ESC.

On 19 May 2002, petitioner-appellee Michael Graves filed a claim for unemployment insurance benefits upon being terminated from his job. The matter was referred to an adjudicator who issued a determination that petitioner-appellee was discharged for misconduct connected with work and thus, was…