"It's an informal hearing that will permit me to get enough information to form a conclusion," he said.

There was no trial, even in the sense of an informal hearing.

Powell also argued that the informal hearing proposed by the majority would not provide significantly more protection.

At some point, an informal hearing will most likely be heard by Paul Beeston, baseball's president and chief operating officer.

He said he expected that the groups would have an informal hearing in the next month to resolve the issue.

She said she was considering holding informal public hearings on the case on her own.

When the committee brushed off his demand for an investigation of war crimes, he conducted his own informal hearings.

Families unhappy with the offer were able to appeal in a nonadversarial, informal hearing to present their case however they wanted.

He said that housing laws did apply and that the informal hearings were illegal.

It had ordered the September Program as an informal hearing in order to learn about the opinion of the economic and military elites.