ADAMS v. W. OTTAWA PUB. SCHOOLS

Docket No. 272184.

746 N.W.2d 113 (2008)

277 Mich. App. 461

Susan ADAMS, et al., Claimants-Appellants, v. WEST OTTAWA PUBLIC SCHOOLS and Department of Labor and Economic Growth Unemployment Insurance Agency, Respondents-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided January 3, 2008, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication March 14, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kalniz, Iorio & Feldstein Co., L.P.A. (by Krista Durchik), Grand Rapids, for the claimants.

Michael A. Cox, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Julie M. Jensen and Thomas C. Johnson, Assistant Attorneys General, Grand Rapids, for the Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Unemployment Insurance Agency.

Nantz, Litowich, Smith, Girard & Hamilton, P.C. (by John H. Gretzinger), Grand Rapids, for West Ottawa Public Schools.

Before: BANDSTRA, P.J., and METER and BECKERING, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Appellants are school bus drivers who appeal, by leave granted, the lower court's order affirming the Michigan Employment Security Board of Review's order denying them unemployment benefits. We affirm.

The essential dispute here is whether the so-called "school denial period" in MCL 421.27(i)(2) bars appellants' receipt of unemployment benefits. That subsection sets out an exception to the payment of such benefits. It states, in pertinent part...

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