FLYNN v. MAINE EMPLOYMENT SEC. COM'N


448 A.2d 905 (1982)

Ambrose FLYNN v. MAINE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided August 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Lichten (orally), Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Lewiston, for plaintiff.

Rufus E. Brown, Deputy Atty. Gen. (orally), Susan P. Herman, Peter H. Stewart, Asst. Attys. Gen., Maine Dept. of Labor Employment Sec. Com'n, Augusta, for defendants.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, CARTER, VIOLETTE and WATHEN, JJ.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

The Employment Security Commission denied unemployment benefits to the claimant Ambrose Flynn on the ground he had been discharged from his job as a security guard at a Catholic hospital because of his own misconduct connected with his work. The misconduct consisted in talking about religion to employees and patients at the hospital in violation of the request his employer expressly made to him before he was hired. Although in this court Flynn...

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