2004 Minnesota Statutes

     176.307 Compensation judges; block system. 

    The chief administrative law judge must assign workers' 
 compensation cases to compensation judges using a block system 
 type of assignment that, among other things, ensures that a case 
 will remain with the same judge from commencement to conclusion 
 unless the judge is removed from the case by exercise of a legal 
 right of a party or by incapacity.  The block system must be the 
 principal means of assigning cases, but it may be supplemented 
 by other systems of case assignment to ensure that cases are 
 timely decided. 

    HIST: 1992 c 510 art 2 s 8