Wheeler v. Maine Unemployment Insurance Commission

GLASSMAN, Justice.

The Maine Unemployment Insurance Commission (Commission) appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court, Cumberland County, dismissing Harve A. Wheeler’s petition for review of agency action as premature and remanding the matter to the Commission for determination of waiver of repayment of benefits received by Wheeler and the fixing of his attorney’s fees and costs as the prevailing party. Because the Superior Court decision invalidated the Commission’s long-standing practice of determining benefit eligibility separately from waiver of repayment of erroneously paid benefits,…