Class Suit Over Halted Work Release Unemployment Benefits Tossed

Mealey's (April 8, 2021, 9:55 AM EDT) -- PORTLAND, Maine — A prisoner who filed a putative class complaint against Maine officials after unemployment benefits he was receiving after his work release employment stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic were allegedly halted at the direction of the governor failed to show that he was deprived of procedural due process, a federal judge in Maine ruled March 26, granting the defendants’ motion for dismissal....