What happens at a typical evidentiary hearing?
This section deals with evidentiary hearings before the DAB Appellate Division, not hearings held before Administrative Law Judges in the Civil Remedies Division. When the Appellate Division holds an evidentiary hearing in a case, the presiding Board member will conduct the proceeding. Other Board members who will decide the case may attend as their schedules permit but are not necessarily present. All the Board members on the decision-making panel will have the transcript of the hearing available to review. Hearings are generally recorded by a court reporter and the resulting transcript becomes part of the case record. One copy is usually provided to each party as well. The DAB usually will hold one or more telephone conference calls in advance of the hearing to discuss preliminary matters and may ask for written submissions, so that the hearing runs as smoothly as possible. Also, the DAB encourages stipulations and admissions of fact to narrow issues of fact before the hearing. Typic
