High Court Tosses Ruling by ALJ who Was a Disbarred Attorney

The District of Columbia's highest court ruled that the decision of an administrative law judge who lied about having a valid license to practice law will not be allowed to stand, and ordered the Compensation Review Board to figure out how to deal with the hundreds of cases that Anand K. Verma had presided over. Case: Sandoval v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services, No. 13-AA-535, 06/26/2014, published. Facts: Viviana Sandoval suffered injuries in a work-related car accident in March 2011. She then filed a workers' compensation claim seeking an award for 27...