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Matthew Rotman

Administrative Judge, Department of Energy Office of Hearings and Appeals. 19 published hearing decisions, 2022 to 2026. Descriptive of the published record, never a prediction about any pending case.

Two things to keep in mind about these numbers

These are hearing decisions only. The Energy Department resolves many cases without a hearing. What is here is the set that reached a hearing and produced a published decision, so it does not describe how the Energy Department decides cases overall.

A favorable decision is not the final word. In the Energy Department process a decision in the individual's favor can still be appealed by the agency, so a favorable result here is what the judge decided, not necessarily the settled outcome.

Decisions

19

Favorable to the individual

4 of 18

4 of 18 with a clear result

Concerns decided most often

  • Alcohol (Guideline G)10
  • Criminal conduct (Guideline J)4
  • Personal conduct (Guideline E)4
  • Psychological conditions (Guideline I)4
  • Drug involvement (Guideline H)3

Recent decisions

A favorable decision may be appealed, so it is not necessarily the settled outcome.

How these numbers are measured

Fewer than 20 decisions state a clear result, so the raw count is shown rather than a percentage. These are published hearing decisions only; the Energy Department resolves many cases without a hearing. An association in the decided history, not advice and not a prediction.

Reading these figures

  • Favorable = the judge decided in the individual's favor; Not favorable = the judge decided against.
  • Favorable share = favorable ÷ (favorable + not favorable). Decisions that were mixed, or whose result could not be read cleanly, are left out of the rate rather than guessed at.
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 decisions with a clear result. Below that, the counts are printed instead of a percentage.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Every figure here counts published Department of Energy hearing decisions alone. No figure on this site combines them with the DOHA record.

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