Employment Division v. Smith

The Employment Division (Division) seeks judicial review of two orders of the Employment Appeals Board (EAB), consolidated for purposes of review, involving four claims for unemployment compensation benefits. EAB’s orders set aside the Division’s amended decisions concerning eligibility of claimants for benefits and reinstated the Division’s initial eligibility decisions on the ground that the Division had no authority to withdraw and amend its initial decisions. We affirm.

The facts underlying the four claims and two orders are identical. Claimants were employed by the Division until federal…