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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

PRELIMINARY CONCLUSION No. 1 · PEREZ (2025) · EN BANC · BIND printed at § 20.3 slip op. p. 10

PRELIMINARY CONCLUSION No. 2 · PEREZ (2025) · EN BANC · BIND printed at § 20.3 slip op. p. 10

PRELIMINARY CONCLUSION No. 3 · PEREZ (2025) · EN BANC · BIND printed at § 20.3 slip op. p. 10

The tribunal

Chair: Katherine A. Zalewski
Commissioner: José H. Razo
Commissioner: Katherine Williams Dodd
Commissioner: Craig L. Snellings (signed as “Craig Snellings” in Dennis, 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 — 39 quoted in the book, the remainder excluded with stated reasons. Ledger: /api/census · quote hashes: /api/verification.