Hamm v. GMRI, Inc.

Full title: ROCHELLE D. HAMM, Appellant, v. GMRI, INC., and UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Dec 15, 2000

772 So. 2d 633 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

Opinion

No. 1D00-1208.

Opinion filed December 15, 2000.

An order of the Unemployment Appeals Commission.

Reversed.

Mitchell S. Ritchie; Liza V. Zidovec, Jacksonville, for Appellant.

John D. Maher, Tallahassee, for Appellees.

Browning, J.

See Ford v. Southeast Atlantic Corp., 588 So.2d 1039 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991) (the Appeals Referee is the fact finder in unemployment compensation proceedings, and where the Appeals Referee's decision is supported by competent substantial evidence, it must be upheld); see also Holloman v. City of Quincy, 664 So.2d 310 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995) (neither this court nor the Unemployment Appeals Commission may reweigh the evidence or substitute its findings for those of the Appeals Referee).

ALLEN and BENTON, JJ., CONCUR.