31.   Nakatani appealed and a state hearing officer recommended that the ruling be upheld.

32.   Most others win because the parents persuade a hearing officer that the school system cannot or did not provide proper education for their child.

33.   New Orleans judicial officials said a hearing officer acts as a judge to dispose of parking tickets there.

34.   Other lawyers who specialize in military justice say that referring charges against the advice of a hearing officer is done relatively infrequently but is not unheard of.

35.   Pearce made his comments Thursday at a hearing conducted by a county hearing officer that Josephson hopes will lead to his reinstatement.

36.   Pretty soon, Jimmy Thompson found himself in front of a hearing officer at New York State Labor Department headquarters in Albany.

37.   Schools and hearing officers who preside over the appeals process say the diagnoses are often boilerplate.

38.   She went to the EEOC only after an unemployment hearing officer suggested that she do so.

39.   That case is still awaiting a decision by a hearing officer.

40.   That bill, which was given final approval on Friday night, would require the appointment of independent hearing officers to handle serious disciplinary cases involving municipal workers.