NORA V. UNEMPLOYMENT

State: Florida

Court: Florida Third District Court

Docket No: 07-1544

Case Date: 12/31/2008

Preview:Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida, July Term, A.D. 2008
Opinion filed December 31, 2008. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D07-1544 Lower Tribunal No. 07-2552 ________________

Janice M. Nora,
Appellant, vs.

Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission and Miami/MiamiDade County Weed & Seed, Inc.,
Appellees.

An Appeal from the Florida Unemployment Appeals Commission. Janice M. Nora, in proper person. John D. Maher (Tallahassee), Unemployment Appeals Commission, for appellees. Before WELLS and SHEPHERD, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. Ms. Nora appeals from orders disqualifying her from unemployment insurance benefits because of "misconduct." She was in charge of disbursing

funds for a government-funded program and was deemed "insubordinate" and discharged for refusing to approve payment to a vendor which had not complied with relevant requirements notwithstanding her supervisor's order to do so anyway. We reverse with directions to afford her the full amounts claimed

because the grounds relied upon fall embarrassingly short of satisfying the statutory definition of misconduct. See

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