Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of John A. McWilliams, Appellant. John F. Hudacs, as Commissioner of Labor, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-01-13
Citations: 200 A.D.2d 844
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of John A. McWilliams, Appellant. John F. Hudacs, as Commissioner of Labor, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 200
Pages: 844–845

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of John A. McWilliams, Appellant. John F. Hudacs, as Commissioner of Labor, Respondent.
[606 NYS2d 803]

Opinion:
—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed May 4, 1992, which denied claimant's application for reopening and reconsideration.
We do not find that the Board abused its discretion in rejecting claimant's application to reopen the Board's prior decision ruling that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits. In any event, there is substantial evidence to support the Board's conclusion that claimant's use of inappropriate language toward one student and his apparent challenge to another student to "settle their differences outside" constituted misconduct, especially after he had been warned about such conduct in the past.
Cardona, P. J., Mikoll, Crew III, White and Weiss, JJ., concur. Ordered that the decision is affirmed, without costs.