Wallace v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

In Wallace v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 38 Pa. Commw. 342, 393 A.2d 43 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1978), the Court struck down an absolute prohibition contained in the Unemployment Compensation Act prohibiting a claimant who voluntarily received benefits because of the marital, filial or domestic reasons, stating that: Because the absolute disqualification by Section 402(b)(2)(II) of all unemployment compensation claimants who voluntarily terminate their employment for marital, filial or domestic reasons bears no rational relationship to a legitimate legislative purpose, it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution; because it denies such claimants individualized determinations of their entitlement to a significant property right when the administrative inconvenience of providing such determinations is negligible, it violates the Due Process Clause. 393 A.2d at 47.