Unemployment compensation court case files, 1938-2003.

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Unemployment compensation court case files, 1938-2003.

Files of the Commission's legal staff relating to review by courts of Commission decisions on eligibility for unemployment compensation. Typically included are appellant and respondent briefs, transcripts of hearings before a Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations Appeal Tribunal, and memoranda decisions or judgments of the court. Such judicial review is the final appellate step in the determination of unemployment compensation eligibility under s. 108.9, Wisconsin Statutes. The processed portion of this series is summarized above and dates 1938-1989. Additional accessions are described below and date 1990-2002.

95.6 c.f. (19 archives boxes and 88 record center cartons); plusadditions of 48.0 c.f.

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