Practice and Procedure
ALJ denies request to vacate 2-year old stipulation of settlement.
ALJ Tynia D. Richard denied a request made by a former City hospital employee to reopen her disciplinary case and vacate a stipulation of settlement that she entered into two years ago, in 2009, by the terms of which she agreed to resign from her position. Though represented by counsel at the time of settlement, she claimed she was coerced into the agreement. ALJ Richard found that the stipulation concluded the matter and that OATH no longer had authority over it.
Health & Hospitals Corp. v. Chime (in PDF) , 2969/09, letter to counsel (Oct. 28, 2011).