Authority to Adjudicate
Learn about the authority of agencies to adjudicate disputes, including limitations on that authority.
Transcript
Adjudication is the process by which agencies make final decisions on matters other than rulemaking. Adjudication produces orders, defined as an agency’s final disposition of a matter other than rulemaking. Adjudication includes hearings before administrative-law judges, or ALJs, that resemble trials in many ways, but also includes far less formal decision-making processes. For example,...