# Brady v. Board of Review

> Supreme Court of New Jersey · December 22, 1997 · 152 N.J. 197

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9648426

## Case

- **Full name:** William F. Brady, Jr., Sylvia Albarran, Herbert Alexander, Carmen Alicea, Frederick Allen, Beatrice Amison, Gerald Amison, Shirley G. Anderson, Joseph Andrews, Jr., Mary L. Arcamone, Mary Austin, James Bailey, Dudley Barcalow, Jose J. Beaychamps, Marietta Berenato, Josefa Bielski, Anna Bijacsko, John Black, Harold Bodden, Shirley Bottrel, Leon Boyer, Raymond Boyzath, Freddie Brimley, Herbert Brooker, James H. Browne, Robert W. Bryner, Augusta Budd, Hector G. Burgos, John E. Burris, James Caldwell, Marie Capriotti, Robert Case, Margaret Chambus, Patricia Charyak, Matteo Cipriano, Benjamin Cole, Thomas J. Coleman, Fred Como, William R. Craft, Joann Crea, Luz Cruz, Mary L. Czap, Joseph Daly, Sophie Dardzinski, Karl H. Deibler, Barbara A. Derry, Margaree Dillard, Edward Dorota, Anthony Doto, Anatol Dowbnia, David J. Downing, Charles P. Dragos, James J. Duncan, Mary F. Ealy, Kurt E. Eder, Custodia Feijo, Sylvia Ferguson, Anthony Ferrare, Juan Flores, Rafael Garcia, Lester Glascoe, Delores Glazewski, Elfriede Halko, Murray A. Halpern, Geraldine Hambley, Barbara A. Harden, Charlotte Hayden, Walter Hearns, Robert G. Hennessee, Thomas Horan, Edward Hugo, Richard Hutchinson, Vincent Immordino, Sarah C. Inniss, Jena Iorio, Bennie Isom, Andrena L. Johnson, Ronald Kasa, Dorothea Kato, Margaret M. Kennedy, John Kovach, Mariva Kuhn, Sam Lagares, Ronald Lawrence, Chang Lee, Andy Leonarski, Walter Lomax, Armand Loretucci, Jacq. Marinello, Charles B. Marks, Dolores Marlin, Margaret Mason, John McEllinney, Juan Medina, John Mellodge, Mary Merovich, Eugene J. Minich, Minerva Montero, Hector M. Morales, Minerva Morales, Cornelius Morrow, Mary A. Murphy, Carmela C. Nickels, Peter Nicoali, Stanley Olschewski, Edward J. Pallay, Ronald J. Palmieri, James S. Petrucelli, Harry Phillips, Mathew Pierre, Freya Poliziana, Arthur S. Popp, Wilfred W. Powers, Frank Prasak, Rochelle Pritchard, Giuseppe Puglisi, Carmen Quiles, Alicia Quinones, Frederick Rainer, Evelyn Ramsey, Raymond R. Rawa, Stanistaw Remboski, Asten L. Richardson, Robert R. Robinson, Minnie Sanders, Roman Saturnino, Kenneth Schneider, Anthony Scott, Jasper Scott, Josephine Seckinger, Thomas P. Sehenuk, Joseph Serock, Elizabeth Smith, Frank Smith, Dolores Stewart, Walter Strehlow, Tammy Strycharz, Barbara Sykes, Ida R. Taylor, Anthony Testa, Mary Thomas, Gilbert Tilton, George Titus, Emanuel Tramontana, Evelyn L. Treibly, John Tripa, Frank Tuccillo, Emma M. Twyman, Eliz. O. Vandewater, James L. Vandewater, Patricia Velez, George Voilas, Robert Walker, Marie Walsh, John Walter, Loretta Washington, Deles Watson, Gladys Williams, Lizzie Williams, Margaret Williams, Shirley Williams, Thomas Williams, Rose Winrow, George M. Woodward, Bonnie L. Wright and Roscoe N. Wright, Claimants-Respondents, v. Board of Review and General Motors Corporation, Inland Fisher Guide Division, Respondents-Appellants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of New Jersey
- **Decided:** December 22, 1997
- **Citations:** 152 N.J. 197; 704 A.2d 547; 1997 N.J. LEXIS 549
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Coleman
- **Judges:** Garibaldi, Coleman
- **Cited by:** 352 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding "[i]f the Board's factual findings are supported 'by sufficient credible evidence, A-0036-18T1 14 courts are obliged to accept them,'" quoting Self v. Bd. of Review, 91 N.J. 453, 459 (1982), and the agency's decision may not be disturbed unless shown to be arbitrary, c…
- holding "[i]f the Board's factual findings are supported 'by sufficient credible evidence, courts are obliged to accept them,'" quoting Self v. Bd. of Review, 91 N.J. 453, 459 (1982), and the agency's decision may not be disturbed unless shown to be arbitrary, capricious, or u…
- stating "[t]he test of 'ordinary common sense and prudence' must be utilized to determine whether an employee's decision to leave work constitutes good cause"
- stating N.J.S.A. 43:21-5(a) was amended "in 1961 to disqualify claimants who left work for purely personal reasons."
- stating courts are obliged to accept an agency's factual finding supported by substantial evidence

## Opinion text

COLEMAN, J.,
dissenting.
I would affirm the judgment below finding that claimants are eligible for unemployment benefits substantially for the reasons stated by the Appellate Division. General Motors’s communica *223 tions to its employees that the plant was closing were unequivocal and unyielding. It persisted in those communications until two days after the deadline to file for early retirement had passed. Under the totality of circumstances, claimants established a reasonable belief of a real, substantial, and imminent risk of losing their jobs.
Furthermore, a finding that claimants are eligible to collect unemployment benefits will not result in a double recovery because N.J.S.A. 43:21-5a requires a set-off based oh pension or retirement payments received by claimants. Consequently, I dissent.
STEIN, J., joins in this opinion.
For reversal and reinstatement — Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices HANDLER, POLLOCK, O’HERN and GARIBALDI — 5.
For affirmance — Justices COLEMAN and STEIN — 2.

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