Legal Opinion
University of Rhode Island v. Department of Employment & Training, Board of Review
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 14, 1997No. 95-30-M.PPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
The petitioner, the University of Rhode Island (URI or the university), has asked us to review a District Court order that one of its full-time lecturers, Sandra Quinn (Quinn), is entitled to collect unemployment-compensation benefits for a portion of the 1994 summer break between URI’s academic years. The university had notified Quinn that it intended to downsize her job assignment for the next academic year from a full-time to a three-quarter-time teaching position. The District Court upheld a decision of the Board of Review of the Department of Employment and Training (DET) awarding…
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- D'Arezzo v. D'ArezzoSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1970
- DePetrillo v. Department of Employment Security, Board of ReviewSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1993
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