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Perez v. Chicago Dogs (2025) ADJ16597333
Appeals Board en banc · binding precedent · 16 pages · retrieved 2026-08-24 · machine-verified 2026-08-24
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Holdings & conclusions
“a request on the record for electronic witness testimony at the beginning of the hearing, with an opportunity for any party to respond, satisfies the petition requirement and is sufficient to adjudicate the issue of electronic testimony.”
“the due process right to a fair hearing and a determination based on the merits is good cause to allow the electronic testimony of the witness.”
“when a witness is unable to appear in person, as a matter of due process, a request to testify electronically should be readily permitted.”
The tribunal
Chair: Katherine A. Zalewski
Commissioner: José H. Razo
Commissioner: Katherine Williams Dodd
Commissioner: Craig L. Snellings (signed as “Craig Snellings” in Perez and Vazquez)
Commissioner: Joseph V. Capurro
Commissioner: Paul F. Kelly
District office: Santa Ana District Office
Trial judge (named by the corpus): Judge Brennen (named in the Petition for Reconsideration as quoted by the en banc; Santa Ana)
served: Pro Athlete Law Group
served: Goldberg Segalla
served: Michael Sullivan & Associates
served: Garber & Av
served: Liu Hutton
Where the book shelves it
§ 1.3 The Appeals Board as Court; Rulemaking Authority and Its Limits
§ 16.3 Pleadings: Informality, Liberal Construction, Amendment to Conform to Proof
§ 16.9 Walk-Through Settlements; Notices of Intention
§ 17.1 Discovery: Liberal Policy; No Good-Cause Showing for Routine Requests
§ 20.1 Decisions Rest on the Admitted Record
§ 20.2 Due Process Before the Board
§ 20.3 Electronic Witness Testimony (Rule 10817)
§ 21.2 Reconsideration: The Sixty-Day Period After Transmission (§ 5909)
§ 21.3 Grant of Reconsideration: Effect, Continuing Jurisdiction, and Finality
Census accounting
Every sentence of this decision is accounted for: 184 sentences — 75 quoted in the book, the remainder excluded with stated reasons. Ledger: /api/census · quote hashes: /api/verification.