State Contracting v. Dept. of Transp.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that an agency need not defer to an administrative law judge on issues of law under Chapter 120
• In contrast, the agency is not required to defer to the administrative law judge on issues of law.
• “In this context [a bid protest before a state agency], the phrase “de novo hearing” is used to describe a form of intra-agency review. The judge may receive evidence ... but the object of the proceeding is to evaluate the action taken by the agency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).