Question

When conducting an enforcement action by a federal administrative agency, the correct order of events is:

Group of answer choices

1 notification of the complaint, information gathering, enforcement hearing is held, administrative agency decision, appeal to the courts

2 notification of the complaint, consent decree, ALJ findings and decision, enforcement hearing is held, administrative agency decision, appeal to the courts

3 notification of the complaint, administrative agency decision, enforcement hearing is held, ALJ findings and decision, appeal to the courts

4 notification of the complaint, enforcement hearing is held, ALJ findings and decision, administrative agency decision, appeal to the courts

5 none of the above

Answer 1

Answer is option 1

notification of the complaint: - is when the agency receives a complaint and thus for starting the investigation they notify the party, information gathering:- they then based on complaint gather the evidence for the enquiry, enforcement hearing is held:- based on the charges and the evidence the hearing is held where both defendant and accuser are given chance to defence their findings and evidence, administrative agency decision:- based on the hearing the judgement is given, appeal to the courts:- if the verdict is not satisfactory then the party has option to appeal to higher authority or judiciary