Matter of Tenure Hearing of Onorevole

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

HANDLER, J.

The question presented is whether an attorney who previously served as an administrative law judge in the Office of Administrative Law and had presided in a case involving particular parties should be disqualified from representing as a private attorney one of those parties in another but different contested case before the Office of Administrative Law. This question implicates a threshold issue whether an administrative law judge presiding over a contested case has the authority to determine if an attorney should be disqualified on ethics…