Department of Employment Security of the Industrial Commission v. Ninth Circuit Court In & for Cedar City Department

HOWE, Justice:

We granted plaintiffs petition for a writ of certiorari to review orders of the Ninth Circuit Court entered in the case of State v. Meister (No. 81-CR-645, Circuit Court of Iron County).

On September 18, 1981, the Department of Employment Security (DES) advised Patricia J. Meister that it found her to have fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits amounting to $2,428 for the weeks of March 8 through August 2, 1980. She was further notified that she would be disqualified for an additional forty-nine weeks, beginning September 20, 1981, and ending August 28, 1982. Pursuant to…