1.   As part of the reorganization, an appeals board was established.

2.   Before the case was even heard by the local appeals board, the assessor offered to negotiate a reduction in the assessment, Grabow said.

3.   A representative for the American Immigration Lawyers Association will tell the subcommittee that the group opposes cutting back on the appeals board.

4.   A rarely used procedure allows the attorney general to overrule the appeals board.

5.   A state appeals board found the report unconvincing since it did not substantiate that McCarron had sustained an industrial injury.

6.   But the bill also establishes a seven-member appeals board to overrule those officials.

7.   For no reason that makes any sense to anybody now, the appeals board ruled that Vic owed the money.

8.   Further, a lawsuit could only proceed if the external appeals board ruled in favor of the patient, but the HMO refused to comply.

9.   However, Nadine Wettstein, a lawyer with the American Immigration Law Foundation, countered that the appeals board continues to decide against aliens in most cases.

10.   In December, Attorney General John Ashcroft agreed to consider an INS request to overrule the appeals board on Jeanbeaucejour.