In Skidgel v. California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, the Supreme Court today holds that people paid with state and federal funds to provide in-home services to certain elderly or disabled family members are not covered by California’s unemployment insurance program.
The court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Martin Jenkins is all about statutory interpretation, including a detailed discussion of relevant legislative history.
The court affirms the First District, Division Five, Court of Appeal.
The opinion is Justice Jenkins’s first, coming over eight months after he joined the court. That first-opinion wait time is not unusual.
