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Steven L. Fine

Administrative Judge (Hearing Officer in earlier decisions), Department of Energy Office of Hearings and Appeals. 185 published hearing decisions, 2011 to 2025. 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

185

Favorable to the individual

29%

51 of 178 with a clear result

Concerns decided most often

  • Alcohol (Guideline G)87
  • Criminal conduct (Guideline J)55
  • Personal conduct (Guideline E)53
  • Financial considerations (Guideline F)31
  • Psychological conditions (Guideline I)29

Recent decisions

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

How these numbers are measured

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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