Department of Health and Mental Hygiene v. Shrieves

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a Circuit Court ordered a security attendant at a state hospital be reinstated with “back pay and any lost benefits”
• stating that “the power of [ALJs] to render initial decisions does not mean that [an agency] is ‘relegated to the role of [a] reviewing court.’ ”
• applying Anderson and remanding because it was not clear from the agency’s decision to what extent the agency had rejected the ALJ’s demeanor-based findings
• “When reviewing an agency’s decision overruling an ALJ’s recommendation, the question is not ‘whether the agency erred’ in overruling the ALJ but whether there is substantial evidence for the agency’s decision.”
• review of ALJ decision by agency Board or Secretary constituted final agency action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).