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SWENSON v. EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMM.

Docket No. 5, Calendar No. 45,679.

340 Mich. 430 (1954)

65 N.W.2d 709

SWENSON v. EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 8, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennings, Fraser, Parsons & Trebilcock (Archie C. Fraser and Joe C. Foster, Jr., of counsel) and North, Allen & Scatterday, for plaintiffs.

Frank G. Millard, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd and George M. Bourgon, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant commission.

Amici Curiae:

Erwin B. Ellmann, for Jewish Community Council of Detroit.

B. Morris Pelavin, for Flint Jewish Community Council.

William Cohen and Leo Pfeffer, for American Jewish Congress.

Charles L. Goldstein, for American Jewish Committee, Detroit Chapter.

David E. Utley, for Jewish Welfare Federation and Council of Pontiac.

Gerald A. Lipnik, for Beth Israel Community Center of Ann Arbor.

T. George Sternberg, for Northern Michigan Jewish Welfare Federation.

BUSHNELL, J.

Plaintiffs, Bessie Swenson, Aileen I. Langs and Neva I. Van Syckle, were employed as packers by the Battle Creek Food Company prior to their layoff, due to lack of work. In their applications for unemployment benefits they stated that they could not work from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, because they were Seventh Day Adventists. As a result of this statement to defendant Michigan Employment Security Commission...

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