The panel agreed to reopen the hearing Monday for more testimony.

The safety board held five days of hearings in Pittsburgh in January and reopened the hearings today.

The Board granted the Party's motion, reopened the hearings, and the witness was recalled and crossexamined.

"Reopening the hearing had never been an item that I had focused on at all," Judge Baer told him.

Judge Ito's decision to reopen the hearings, however, was largely overshadowed by the release of transcripts of Wednesday's closed session.

If the commissioner regarded his position as vulnerable on "due process" grounds, he should have reopened the hearing to permit Mr. Steinbrenner to present additional evidence.

SFU refused to reopen the hearing, insisting that Donnelly's boycott of the hearing was itself sufficient justification for his dismissal.

After reopening the hearing, Judge Stanton said he had wanted to gather information from Mr. Koskovich in a way that would not affect his forthcoming trial.

But Jay Holtmeier, Assistant United States Attorney, said prosecutors plan to ask Judge Bear to reopen the hearing on the motion to suppress evidence.

Negotiations to extend the panel's life had broken down over whether Mr. D'Amato would be permitted to reopen the hearings after the deadline date if new information emerged.

There was some thought that Steinbrenner's remarks about the status of the hearing and witnesses was a veiled suggestion that he wanted to reopen the hearing, but he did not address that aspect.

The betting now is that the department will order the judge to reopen the hearings and complete the record, then decide that ATX is at least as fit as Renown to put planes in the air.

The question before the inspector general of the E.P.A. is whether Mr. Reilly allowed himself to be improperly lobbied in meetings with waste industry officials before deciding to reopen the hearing on the North Carolina law.

After Judge Ott's decision in 2004, The Friends of the Barnes Foundation and Montgomery County filed briefs in Montgomery County Orphan's Court to reopen the hearings that allowed the move.

In reply to CTI's petition to reopen the hearings, the FCC said that "new ideas and new inventions are matters of weekly, even daily, occurrence," and therefore the Commission had to make a decision at some point.

In their arguments against reopening the hearings, defense lawyers derided Mr. Bibb's presentation, saying that prosecutors had long known about the connection between Mr. Pillot and Mr. Lemus, and that it was extremely tenuous.

But the judge's decision to reopen the hearings was largely overshadowed by the release of transcripts of a closed session on Wednesday in which Mr. Simpson described fleeing the police, prompting his lawyer to threaten to quit if he continued talking.

Mr. Meehan said that he was not convinced the company was moving fast enough to improve reliability, and that he would seek to reopen the hearing and require the utility to give rebates to people who have long or frequent power failures.

We should add that after the hearing was completed we received a letter from Mr. Persaud inviting us to reopen the hearing to allow him to address additional points to us which he had not mentioned at all in his opening submissions to us or in his reply.