In Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), the Supreme Court held that an agency can terminate a person’s welfare benefits only after affording him or her minimal procedural safeguards, which included the right to a pre-determination administrative hearing.
administrative hearing
Definition
A trial-like proceeding before an administrative agency or administrative law judge. As in a trial, evidence is proffered and testimony is given. Unlike a trial, an administrative hearing is often shorter in duration and more informal in nature.
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
A hearing before a governmental agency or an administrative law judge. There is no jury, but the agency or the administrative law judge has the authority to make a decision and issue a ruling.
Definition provided by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary.
August 19, 2010, 5:10 pm
“Due process of law requires that, at some stage of the [administrative] proceedings, the [person] shall have an opportunity to be heard, of which he must have notice, either personal or by publication, or by a law fixing the time and place of the hearing…..Many requirements essential in strictly judicial proceedings may be dispensed with in proceedings of this nature. But even here a hearing, in its very essence, demands that he who is entitled to it shall have the right to support his allegations by argument, however brief, and, if need be by proof, however informal.” J. Moody, Londoner v. Denver, 210 U.S. 373 (1908).
