Court Opinion

ID: 9765179
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:54:36.546799+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:05.960473
License: Public Domain

ORDER ON MOTION FOR REHEARING OR TO TRANSFER
PER CURIAM.
The Division of Employment Security asserts in its motion for rehearing or for transfer to the Supreme Court that our opinion is in conflict with a recent decision of this court in Casagrande v. Division of Employment Security, 951 S.W.2d 754, (Mo.App.1997). In Casagrande, this court relied upon the definition of “good cause” in 8 CSR 10-5.040(4), while in this case the court found that the same definition was invalid because it was in conflict with the legislative intention of § 288.130.4, RSMo 1994. While the decision of the court in Casagrande was an order opinion and of no precedential value, the confusion over the issues raised in the two cases emphasizes the need to clarify that our opinion, here, does not declare the definition of “good cause” in 8 CSR 10-5.040(4) invalid for all purposes.
In this case, 8 CSR 10-5.040(4) defined the term “good cause” as that term was used in a statute. The definition was found invalid because it was more restrictive than the common law definition intended by the legislature when it used that term in § 288.130.4. In Casagrande, the regulation defined “good cause” as that term was used in another regulation, 8 CSR 10-5.040(2)(G). The agency was free to define the term, as it was used in another regulation, in any manner it desired. That case did not involve any conflict ■with the intent of the legislature. There is no inconsistency between the holding in this case and that of Casagrande. The definition of “good cause” in 8 CSR 10-5.040(4) is invalid only where it applies to define a statutory term, as in this ease.
Motion denied.