Appellate Practice: Pro Se Appellant – Inadequate Brief – Unemployment Compensation Case

Where a pro se appellant in an unemployment compensation case failed to challenge the basis for the commission’s decision and his brief did not include citations to the record or any legal authority, and the brief did not set out the applicable standard of review, the appeal is dismissed for failure to comply with Rule 84.04.

Appeal is dismissed.

Ireland v. Division of Employment Security (MLW No. 64597/Case No. WD74814 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.) Appealed from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Jeffrey M. Ireland, pro se) (Ninion S. Riley, Jefferson City, for respondent).

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