MATTER OF PATINO (CATHERWOOD)


29 N.Y.2d 331 (1971)

In the Matter of the Claim of Manuel L. Patino et al., Appellants. Martin P. Catherwood, as Industrial Commissioner, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 2, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Richard Larson, Dennis R. Yeager, Jose Luis Capella and Luis M. Villaronca for appellants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Irving Jorrisch, Samuel A. Hirshowitz and Murray Sylvester of counsel), for respondent.

Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON concur.


Chief Judge FULD.

The three claimants, Puerto Rican born citizens of the United States, were employed in New York City for varying lengths of time. When, in 1968, they lost their jobs, they returned to their native communities in the area of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Declared ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits on the ground that they had removed themselves to an area of "high persistent unemployment...

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