Hearings before license revocation
Cheleden v. Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Charles F.
- What's at stake
- Cheleden’s challenge to losing his professional license—and to the chance he had to dispute the facts—remains unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Cheleden asks the Supreme Court to review the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s revocation of his professional license after the Department proceeded through an informal hearing, although his case had earlier been referred for a formal hearing on disputed facts. His petition argues that he never received a meaningful chance to challenge those facts.
Cheleden disputed material facts, and a formal hearing was scheduled. After the parties reported a settlement, the administrative law judge closed the file. In 2024, Florida resumed the case and revoked his license after an informal hearing that considered his evidence only in deciding the penalty.
Florida law gives professionals who dispute important facts in discipline cases a right to a formal hearing before an administrative law judge.
Question presented
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State, after referring a professional-discipline case for a formal evidentiary hearing on disputed material facts, to revoke the licensee ’ s existing professional license through an informal proceeding without ever providing a meaningful opportunity to test those facts on the merits.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear Cheleden’s petition. No oral-argument schedule or decision window is set unless the Court agrees to review the case.
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Sources
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