Court Opinion

ID: 9789579
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:38:36.295803+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:23.273225
License: Public Domain

CROCKETT, Justice
(concurring but with comment):
If the disqualification for 52 weeks is imposed simply because it is so authorized by the statute, and not because the facts justify that maximum penalty, that is a *1297capricious and arbitrary result. However, I recognize that the present decisional law of our state is as set forth by the majority in our recent case of Diprizio v. Industrial Commission, Utah, 572 P.2d 679. I reaffirm my view, as pointed out in the dissent therein, as to the unreasonable and undesirable aspects of holding that the Commission, in performing judicial functions, has no judicial discretion and cannot do other than impose the maximum penalty.