Searching Administrative Law Judge Decisions (Link Below)

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What Is Accessible?

All Administrative Law Judge decisions

in non-confidential cases
that have been certified or acted upon by the agencies, or which are final without agency action (e.g. Homeowners and Condominuim Association hearings)
from 1/1/1996 through 1/31/2007.

can be searched. Decisions are updated biweekly . The next sechuled update will be on February 28, 2007 and will include decisions meeting the above criteria through February 15, 2007 The following cases cannot be searched due to confidentiality statutes:

Child Protective Services (Department of Economic Security) - Matter id ends with " -CPS"
Indigent health care (AHCCCS) - Matter id ends with "-AHC"
Indigent mental health care (Department of Health Services) Matter id ends with "-DHS" and contains the letters "BHS" in the second sequence of numbers (eg 01C - BHS0000 - DHS)
Revenue (Department of Revenue) Matter id ends with "-REV"
Insurance (Department of Insurance) Matter id begins with a number sequence ending with a "C", such as "00C", "99C" etc.
Board of Fingerprinting - Matter id ends with "BOF."

Free Text v. Boolean Search

For most purposes, "free text" is a good first option to search for terms. That is the text search default.

The Boolean option requires search operators. To conduct a Boolean search, one of the following "search operators" must appear between each word or phrase: AND, OR, NEAR, NOT. A phrase must be in quotes.

Here are some examples of valid Boolean queries:

construction and wood
gaming and casino and not yavapai
licence or permit or certificate
prescription near drug
"air conditioner" or "heat pump")
furnace near "natural gas"

Here is an example of a common invalid Boolean queries:

wood construction (it would be valid in either of these forms: "wood construction" or wood and construction)

To correlate agency action with a text search, use the following in the boolean option:

1. Agency accepts: aaccep or aaccepedit and (whatever your terms are).

aaccep or aaccepedit and civil and court

aaccep or aaccepedit and "civil court"

2. Agency rejects: aarej of aarejedit and (whatever your terms are).

aarej or aarejedit and moral and turpitude

aarej or aarejedit and moral and "moral turpitude"

3. Agency accepts, but modifies a fact or conclusion of law: aamendf or amendfedit and (whatever your terms are).

aamendf or amendfedit and "extruded concrete"

aamendf or amendfedit and extruded and concrete

4. Agency accepts, but amends the order: aamend or aamendedit and (whatever your terms are).

aamend or aamendedit and "fee for service"
(you cannot use " fee and for and service", because "for" is an ignored word; dashes are considered spaces, so "fee-for-services" would have to be in quotes as a phrase as in the example above)

5. Agency accepts and may or may not have amended the order: aaccep or aaccepedit or aamend or aamendedit and (whatever your terms are).

eg: aaccep or aaccepedit or aamend or aamendedit and alcohol

6. Agency accepts and may or may not have amended a finding of fact or clonclusion of law: aaccep or aaccepedit or aamendf or amendfedit and (whatever your terms are).

aaccep or aaccepedit or aamendf or amendfedit and phantom and images

aaccep or aaccepedit or aamendf or amendfedit and "phantom and images"

7. Agency accepts and may or may not have amended the order or changed a fact or conclusion of law: aaccep or aaccepedit or aamend or aamendedit or aamendf or amendfedit and (whatever your terms are).

aaccep or aaccepedit or aamend or aamendedit or aamendf or amendfedit and "Water Withdrawal and Use Report "
aaccep or aaccepedit or aamend or aamendedit or aamendf or amendfedit and "Water Withdrawal" and "Use Report"

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