Section 1075.955  Consolidation and Severance of Matters – Additional Parties

For convenient, expeditious and complete determination of matters, the hearing officer may consolidate or sever hearing proceedings involving any number of parties, and may order additional parties to be brought in.  Consolidation may be appropriate, for example, in cases such as: when multiple parties assert the same claim(s), the same fact pattern(s), or the same legal right(s), or are in other aspects congruently situated.  Severance, for example, may occur where there are multiple parties to whom the above-listed examples for consolidation do not apply, or who have interests adverse to one another.