An administrative law judge (ALJ) in the
United States
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is a
judge
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and
trier of fact
A trier of fact or finder of fact is a person or group who determines which facts are available in a legal proceeding (usually a trial) and how relevant they are to deciding its outcome. To determine a fact is to decide, from the evidence prese ...
who both presides over
trials
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and adjudicates claims or disputes involving
administrative law
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. ALJs can administer
oath
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s, take
testimony
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Etymology
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, rule on questions of
evidence
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, and make factual and legal determinations.
In the United States, the
United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
has recognized that the role of a federal administrative law judge is "functionally comparable" to that of an
Article III judge
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. An ALJ's powers are often, if not generally, comparable to those of a trial judge, as ALJs may issue subpoenas, rule on proffers of evidence, regulate the course of the hearing, and make or recommend decisions.
Depending upon the agency's jurisdiction, proceedings may have complex multi-party adjudication, as is the case with the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the United States federal agency that regulates the transmission and wholesale sale of electricity and natural gas in interstate commerce and regulates the transportation of oil by pipeline in ...
, or simplified and less formal procedures, as is the case with the
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government that administers Social Security (United ...
.
Federal appointment and tenure
The
Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA) requires that federal ALJs be appointed based on scores achieved in a comprehensive testing procedure, including a four-hour written examination and an oral examination before a panel that includes an
Office of Personnel Management
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representative, an
American Bar Association
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representative, and a sitting federal ALJ. Federal ALJs are the only merit-based judicial corps in the United States.
In American
administrative law
Administrative law is the division of law that governs the activities of government agency, executive branch agencies of Forms of government, government. Administrative law concerns executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are gener ...
, ALJs are Article I judges under the
U.S. Constitution
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. As such, they do not exercise full judicial power, essentially, the power over life, liberty, and property. Article I (legislative) judges and courts are not constrained to rendering opinions for only a "case or controversy" before them and may render advisory opinions on a purely prospective basis, such as, ''e.g.'', Congressional reference cases assigned to the
Court of Federal Claims
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. Agency ALJs do not have the power to offer such advisory opinions, as it would be in violation of the power afforded them under the Administrative Procedures Act, 5 U.S.C. §557. Unlike the agency, ALJs are not policy or rule makers.
ALJs are generally considered to be part of the executive branch, not the judicial branch, but the APA is designed to guarantee the decisional independence of ALJs. They have
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from liability for their judicial acts and are triers of fact "insulated from political influence". Federal administrative law judges are not responsible to, or subject to, the supervision or direction of employees or agents of the federal agency engaged in the performance of investigative or prosecution functions for the agency. ''Ex parte'' communications are prohibited. ALJs are exempt from performance ratings, evaluation, and bonuses. 5 CFR 930.206. Agency officials may not interfere with their decision-making, and administrative law judges may be discharged only for good cause based upon a complaint filed by the agency with the
Merit Systems Protection Board
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent quasi-judicial agency established in 1979 to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federa ...
(MSPB) established and determined after an APA hearing on the record before an MSPB ALJ.
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Events
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/ref> Only ALJs receive these statutory protections; "hearing officers" or "trial examiners", with delegated hearing functions, are not similarly protected by the APA.
In '' Lucia v. SEC'', decided in June 2018, the Supreme Court
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held that ALJs are Inferior Officers within the meaning of the Appointments Clause
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of the United States Constitution. This means that they must be appointed by the president (alone), by courts of law, or by head of department (their appointment is not subject to the Senate's advice and consent
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), but in practice, because Supreme Court of the United States
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in ''Franklin v. Mass., 505 U.S. 788 (1992)'', held that the U.S. President is not an agency under the Administrative Procedure Act, all ALJs must be appointed by heads of the agencies.
Attorney Advisors
ALJs usually hire Attorney Advisors, who serve a role similar to judicial law clerks of Article III judges
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. For example, Attorney Advisors assist the ALJs with research, writing, drafting of opinions and orders, and assisting with the administration of hearings and other trial-like adjudications. Furthermore, Attorney Advisors usually have practiced as lawyers in the particular field which the ALJ possesses expertise in.
Authority and review of federal ALJs
The United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
has recognized that the role of a federal administrative law judge is "functionally comparable" to that of an Article III judge. An ALJ's powers are often, if not generally, comparable to those of a trial judge: an ALJ may issue subpoenas, rule on proffers of evidence, regulate the course of the hearing, and make or recommend decisions. ALJs are limited as they have no power to sanction unless a statute provides such a power. Instead, the ALJ may refer a matter to an Article III Court to seek enforcement or sanctions. The process of agency adjudication is currently structured so as to assure that ALJs exercise independent judgment on the evidence before them, free from pressures by the parties or other officials within the agency.[
The procedure for reviewing an ALJ's decision varies depending upon the agency. Agencies generally have an internal appellate body, with some agencies having a Cabinet secretary decide the final internal appeals. Moreover, after the internal agency appeals have been exhausted, a party may have the right to file an appeal in the state or federal courts. Relevant statutes usually require a party to exhaust all administrative appeals before they are allowed to sue an agency in court.
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Central panels
Administrative law judges may be employed by a "central panel" organization, which provides the judges with independence from agencies. The California Administrative Procedure Act
The California Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is a series of acts of the California Legislature first enacted 15 June 1945 that requires California state agencies to adopt regulations in accordance with its provisions. It predates the federal ...
created an early central panel in 1945, and it served as a model for other states. By 2015, over half of states had created such panels.
State ALJs
Most U.S. state
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s have a statute
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modeled after the APA. In some states, such as New Jersey
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, the state law is also known as the Administrative Procedure Act.
Unlike federal ALJs, whose powers are guaranteed by federal statute, state ALJs have widely varying power and prestige. In some state law contexts, ALJs have almost no power; their decisions are accorded practically no deference and become, in effect, recommendations. In some cities, ALJs are at-will employees of the agency, making their decisional independence potentially questionable. In some agencies, ALJs dress like lawyer
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s in business suits
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, share offices, and hold hearings in ordinary conference rooms. In other agencies (especially certain offices of the Division of Workers' Compensation of the California Department of Industrial Relations
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), ALJs wear robes like Article III judge
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s, are referred to as "Honorable" and "Your Honor", work in private chambers, hold hearings in special "hearing rooms" that look like small courtroom
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s, and have court clerks who swear in witnesses. State ALJs can be generalists or specialize in specific fields of law, such as tax law.
Professional organizations
Professional organizations that represent federal ALJs include the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference, the Association of Administrative Law Judges, which represents only Social Security ALJs, and the Forum of United States Administrative Law judges. Professional organizations that include both state and federal ALJs include the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary, the ABA National Conference of Administrative Law Judiciary, and the National Association of Hearing Officials.
International comparisons
Unlike the United States, in the United Kingdom the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
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recognises legally qualified members of the national system of administrative law tribunals as members of the judiciary of the United Kingdom
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who are guaranteed judicial independence Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary should be independent from the other branches of government. That is, courts should not be subject to improper influence from the other branches of government or from private or partisan inte ...
.
ALJs cannot be recognized as members of the judicial branch of government (without first completely ejecting them from their home agencies in the executive branch), because to do so would violate the bedrock principle of separation of powers as embodied in the U.S. Constitution. In a 2013 majority opinion signed by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia
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, the U.S. Supreme Court explained:
List of U.S. federal agencies with ALJs
Most of the agencies below have only a few dozen ALJs. In 2013, the Social Security Administration (SSA) had by far the largest number of ALJs at over 1,400, who adjudicate over 700,000 cases each year. The average SSA hearing process occurs over a period of 373 days.
* Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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The Commodity Exchange Ac ...
* Department of Agriculture
* Department of Health and Human Services
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/Department Appeals Board
* Department of Health and Human Services
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/Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals
* Department of Housing and Urban Development
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* Department of the Interior
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* Department of Justice
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/Executive Office for Immigration Review
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* Department of Labor
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* Department of Transportation
* Department of Veterans Affairs
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* Drug Enforcement Administration
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* Environmental Protection Agency
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* Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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* Federal Aviation Administration
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* Federal Communications Commission
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* Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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* Federal Labor Relations Authority
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Created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, it is a quasi- ...
* Federal Maritime Commission
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* Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
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* Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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* Federal Trade Commission
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* Food and Drug Administration
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* General Services Administration
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* International Trade Commission
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* Merit Systems Protection Board
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* National Labor Relations Board
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* National Transportation Safety Board
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* Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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* Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
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* Office of Financial Institution Adjudication
* Patent and Trademark Office
* United States Coast Guard
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* United States Postal Service
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* Securities and Exchange Commission
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* Small Business Administration
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* Social Security Administration
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Other federal agencies may request the U.S. Office of Personnel Management
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to lend them Administrative Law Judges from other federal agencies for a period of up to six months.
List of state departments and agencies with ALJs
Some states, such as California
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, follow the federal model of having a separate corps of ALJs attached to each agency that uses them. Others, such as New Jersey, have consolidated all ALJs together into a single agency that holds hearings on behalf of all other state agencies. This type of state adjudicatory agency is called a "central panel agency
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". Many states have a central panel agency, but the agency does not handle all the hearings for every state agency.
*Alabama Department of Revenue
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*California Department of Consumer Affairs
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*California Department of Health Services
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*California Department of Industrial Relations
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*California Department of Social Services
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*California Employment Development Department
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*California Department of Developmental Services
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Office of Administrative Hearings web page
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Fair Hearings Complaint process web page
*California Office of Tax Appeals
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*California Public Utilities Commission
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*California State Personnel Board
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*Colorado Office of Administrative Courts
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*Colorado Public Utilities Commission
* Florida Division of Administrative Hearings
* Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings
*Illinois Human Rights Commission
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*Indiana Department of Workforce Development
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* Industrial Commission of Arizona
*Iowa Department of Corrections
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* Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals-Division of Administrative Hearings (does hearings for some but not all state agencies)
* Iowa Workforce Development Department
* Louisiana Division of Administrative Law
*Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings
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*Maryland Public Service Commission
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(hearings for public utility cases)
*Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation
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*Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
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*Michigan State Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules
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* Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings (does hearings for some but not all state agencies)
* Mississippi Department of Employment Security, Office of the Governor
*New Jersey Office of Administrative Law
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(does hearings for all state agencies)
*New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings
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(does hearings for some but not all city agencies)
*New York City Department of Finance
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(hearings for parking violations)
*New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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*New York State Department of Labor
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The mission of the New York State Department of Labor is to protect workers ...
*New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Traffic Violations Bureau
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*New York State Department of State
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*New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
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*Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Court Commission
*Pennsylvania Department of Insurance
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*Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry
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, Bureau of Workers' Compensation
Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her emp ...
*Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) is an independent government agency that manages the beverage alcohol industry in Pennsylvania by administering the Pennsylvania Liquor Code. It is responsible for licensing the possession, sale, sto ...
*Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is the public utility commission in Pennsylvania. It is composed of five commissioners, appointed by the Governor with the consent of the state Senate. The PUC oversees public utility and services opera ...
* South Carolina Administrative Law Court (does hearings for all state agencies)
* Texas Department of Banking
* Texas Finance Commission
*Texas Health and Human Services Commission
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is an agency within the Texas Health and Human Services System.
In September 2016, Texas began transforming how it delivers health and human services to qualified Texans, with a goal of makin ...
*Railroad Commission of Texas
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC; also sometimes called the Texas Railroad Commission, TRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil industry, oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas indus ...
* Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (does hearings for only some state agencies)
* Washington Office of Administrative Hearings (does hearings for all state agencies plus some local ones)
*West Virginia Public Employees Grievance Board
*West Virginia Public Service Commission
*West Virginia Insurance Commission (Workers Compensation)
See also
*Federal tribunals in the United States
Federal tribunals in the United States are those tribunals established by the federal government of the United States for the purpose of resolving disputes involving or arising under federal laws, including questions about the constitutionality ...
*Federal judiciary of the United States
The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government. The U.S. federal judiciary consists primaril ...
*Administrative court
An administrative court is a type of court specializing in administrative law, particularly disputes concerning the exercise of public power. Their role is to ascertain that official acts are consistent with the law. Such courts are considered s ...
References
External links
The Forum of United States Administrative Law Judges (FORUM)
National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference
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United States administrative law