What the panel ordered
The Petition for Removal and the Petition for Disqualification were both dismissed by the Appeals Board.
Applicant filed a Petition for Removal and Disqualification of the WCJ, which was reviewed by the WCJ and the Appeals Board.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The Appeals Board dismissed the Petition for Removal because the applicant's inability to file a Declaration of Readiness for an expedited hearing was not an interim or non-final order, and dismissed the Petition for Disqualification because the applicant failed to allege specific facts showing judicial bias and did not follow the required procedure under WCAB Rule 10960.
From the decision · page 1Applicant, in pro per, filed a Petition for Removal on December 5, 2022, contending:
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Applicant's Declaration of Readiness for an expedited hearing was not accepted because the Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS) only allows one hearing to be scheduled at a time, and defendant had already scheduled a hearing earlier that day.