Akroyd v. Rhode Island Department of Employment Security

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This case is before the Supreme Court by means of a petition for certiorari seeking review of a District Court judgment finding the plaintiff, Dorothy Ann Akroyd, eligible for unemployment benefits, thereby reversing the finding of ineligibility made previously by the Board of Review for the Department of Employment Security (board or board of review). The petitioner, Roger Williams Foods, Inc., the plaintiff’s former employer, claims that the District Court judge erred by exceeding the parameters of the appropriate standard of judicial review for an administrative…