LAW 615 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Optometry
30 May 2020
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State agency determined he was no longer eligible on questionnaire, and other medical information. Eldridge challenged the determination in a written response. Eldridge to seek review with state agency: reasoning: eldridge"s private interest is the uninterrupted receipt of his benefits pending the final administrative decision on his claim. The procedure used to determine eligibility for his disability benefits is straightforward, easily documented, and premised on a narrow amount of information. The administrative and societal costs of affording an evidentiary hearing prior to the termination of disability benefits would be high and expensive: the right to a neutral decisionmaker, due process issues in three basic situations. The decisionmaker (1) has a personal interest in the dispute"s outcome; (2) prejudges a dispute"s outcome; (3) has both investigative/prosecutorial and adjudicative responsibilities for a dispute. The right to a neutral decisionmaker is balanced against other interests: tumey v. ohio (1927) p. 629 tumey convicted of possessing liquor.
