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LIRC Unemployment Insurance Decisions -- 
  

  

 [See also: Court decisions on-line]

There are currently 3,024 full-text LIRC UI Decisions and 290 UI court decision summaries available on-line.  To search in all of these documents, enter a query here and click on "Search": 


-- or,  use one of these buttons to do a "programmed" search:

The first two buttons locate decisions issued within the current and previous months.  If any decisions issued earlier than that  have only just been uploaded to this site within those months, the "recent uploads" button will find them.   "Recent Cir. Ct." locates summaries of Cir. Ct. decisions issued in the last month or so. "UI Digest #s" allows programmed searches using topical section numbers from the UI Digest.]

Tips for formulating queries: Queries may use a word (e.g., misconduct) or a combination of words. They may also use category numbers from the UI Decision Digest system (e.g., MC 660, the digest category number for misconduct - negligence). [Note: As an alternative to drafting a digest topic query here, the on-line UI Digest provides "programmed" search buttons which will automatically send such queries for every topic in the digest system].

Adjacent words or terms are treated as a phrase. The Boolean connectors AND, OR, AND NOT, and NEAR may be used to connect words, terms or phrases. An asterisk may be used as a "wild card" for any word ending (i.e.,  misc*  will find misconduct, mischief, etc.).

It is also possible to search by type of document (i.e., LIRC or Court decision summary), date of decision, and (in the case of Court decision summaries) county. See  Searching by type, date, county.

Quotation marks should not be used in a search term.

For more advanced information on using this search capability, see More tips for searching.

Please note, that this is not a collection of all of LIRC's unemployment insurance decisions, but only of a limited number which have been archived based on a staff assessment that they might be useful as research tools. Neither the inclusion nor the omission of any particular decision should be taken as an indication of the commission's views on the general significance of the decision.

Please note also, that these decisions have been converted to HTML, and for that reason they should not be considered exact reproductions of the originals. These versions of the decisions are provided here as an aid to research only. Copies of decisions may be obtained at the commission's offices.

Please note also, that the capsule summary of the decision which appears on the search results page is not part of the commission's decision and does not necessarily reflect the views of the commission.  The summaries are editorial content created by commission staff solely for the purpose of aiding researchers in quickly identifying whether a decision found by searching may touch on issues they are researching.

While the names of all of the members of the commission are listed in the signature block in the decisions, this is not necessarily an indication that all members signed the decision. In earlier cases, the information as to which members signed is not reflected in the version of decision at this website. In most decisions issued since early 1998, that information is provided, by way of the indication " /s/ " before the name of each member of the commission who joined the decision..

 [UI Decision Digest]   [LIRC UI Law Resources]   [LIRC Home Page]

 

Tips for formulating queries: Queries may use a word (e.g.,  misconduct ) or a combination of words. They may also use category numbers from the UI Decision Digest system (e.g., MC 660,  the digest category number for misconduct - negligence). [Note: As an alternative to drafting a digest topic query here, the on-line UI Digest provides "programmed" search buttons which will automatically send such queries for every topic in the digest system].

Adjacent words or terms are treated as a phrase. The Boolean connectors AND, OR, AND NOT, and NEAR may be used to connect words, terms or phrases. An asterisk may be used as a "wild card" for any word ending (i.e.,   misc*   will find misconduct, mischief, etc.).

It is also possible to search by type of document (i.e., LIRC or Court decision summary), date of decision, and (in the case of Court decision summaries) county. See  Searching by type, date, county.

For more advanced information on using this search capability, see More tips for searching.

Please note, that this is not a collection of all of LIRC's unemployment insurance decisions, but only of a limited number which have been archived based on a staff assessment that they might be useful as research tools. Neither the inclusion nor the omission of any particular decision should be taken as an indication of the commission's views on the general significance of the decision.

Please note also, that these decisions have been converted to HTML, and for that reason they should not be considered exact reproductions of the originals. These versions of the decisions are provided here as an aid to research only. Copies of decisions may be obtained at the commission's offices.

While the names of all of the members of the commission are listed in the signature block in the decisions, this is not necessarily an indication that all members signed the decision. In earlier cases, the information as to which members signed is not reflected in the version of decision at this website. In most decisions issued since early 1998, that information is provided, by way of the indication " /s/ " before the name of each member of the commission who joined the decision..

 [UI Decision Digest]   [LIRC UI Law Resources]   [LIRC Home Page]

Searching for Documents by Type, Date, County:

The Title of each document in this collection contains a distinctive phrase indicating the type of document, that is, whether it is a LIRC decision or a Court Decision summary (these phrases are  Wis.LIRC UC Decision  and  UI Court decision summary).   In addition, the Title of each document contains the date the decision was issued.  Also, the Title of each Court Decision summary file also contains the relevant county.  

Because of this, you can easily search for these documents by type, date or county, by limiting your search to the contents of the Title.  To do this, you need to use the term  @DocTitle   followed by the word or words you wish to find within the document Title.

For example, to search for a decision issued on a particular date, use a query like this:

@DocTitle January 20 1999  

 

     (note: do not use a comma after the date)

To search for all LIRC UC decisions issued in January, 1998, use:

@DocTitle Wis.LIRC UC Decision AND January AND 1998  

 

To search for all UC Court Decision summaries from Dane County, use:

@DocTitle UI Court decision summary AND Dane  

 

You can also search within the Title of a document, and search within the content of the document, at the same time.  To do this, simply enclose your "Title search" inside parentheses, and then follow it with your search term for the content of the document.  For example, this query will find all LIRC UC decisions issued in 1998 which contain the word "misconduct":

( @DocTitle Wis.LIRC UC Decision AND 1998) AND misconduct 

 

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