How have the courts treated a finding of good cause for a plaintiff who resigned from his job without good cause to return to his former occupation as a seaman?

1 The briefs for plaintiff contain a long account of his financial and personal problems, leading to his decision to resign from a current job (involving moonlighting to support his family) and seek to return to his former occupation as a seaman. Those factors might, arguably, have supported an attack on the departmental finding that he had left his job without good cause. But such an attack could only be made by a proceeding for administrative mandate under section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The order certifying the present case as a class action limited the issue to the validity, on its face, of the regulation herein involved.

2 Batterton v. Francis (1977) 432 U.S. 416, 97 S.Ct. 2399, 53 L.Ed.2d 448.