220 Neb. 457
370 N.W.2d 173
Decided July 12, 1985
Nebraska Supreme Court · decided 1985-07-12
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Decided 1985-07-12
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Nichols v. Busse (1993), United Food & Commercial Workers International Union v. IBP, Inc. (1988)
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
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¶1dissenting.
¶2It is the position of the Commissioner of Labor that he would like to have it both ways, i.e., to treat the payments as earnings for the purpose of disqualifying the claimant for benefits *466immediately after leaving employment and as nonearnings to disqualify him from future benefits. The majority, holding that indeed “consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds,” agrees with the commissioner. I do not. Catch-22 has arisen, and the result can only be described as ludicrous.