Mesa County Public Library District, Petitioner v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office and Laurie A. G — Coats, J…

Summary

Justice Coats dissented from the majority's interpretation of the unemployment-insurance statute. He would have held that determining whether a claimant's mental inability to work was self-induced remains relevant to whether the claimant was unemployed through no fault of her own. He criticized the majority for treating the claimant's anxiety as eliminating fault even though the anxiety allegedly arose from corrective actions addressing her prior failure to perform. The dissent would have upheld the hearing officer's disqualification decision.