Court Opinion

ID: 9565550
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:23:40.992993+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:44.929179
License: Public Domain

ON REHEARING
SHEPARD, Justice.
A petition foij rehearing was filed and granted only asserting that the Depart*824ment of Employment now, or in the past, has promulgated a rule providing that when a claimant has received a favorable decision from an administrative decision of the Department of Employment, and that decision has been appealed and the claimant’s favorable decision is affirmed, that in such case the Department of Employment will award attorney fees and costs to the claimant.
The Department of Employment, on rehearing, asserts that therefore it desires to award attorney fees to the claimant in the instant case, but that it is prevented from doing so by the Court’s original opinion wherein it is noted that the Court awards no attorney fees on appeal.
We hold that the instant appeal was not brought frivolously or without foundation. Therefore the standards in Minich v. Gem State Developers, Inc., 99 Idaho 911, 591 P.2d 1078 (1979), are not met, and this Court does not therefore make an award of attorney fees. However, if the Department of Employment desires to nevertheless make an award of attorney fees pursuant to its rules, it is not barred from doing so.
DONALDSON, C.J., and BAKES and HUNTLEY, JJ., concur.