Reserve gain should be allowed for hearing aid users, so that they have the freedom to adjust for different listening environments.
Instead, the court set a Dec. 29 deadline for those briefs, expediting the process enough to allow for a hearing in January and, if the court takes the case, a decision by summer.
The event, conducted under the Chatham House rule whereby comments are unattributed to allow for frank debate, heard how not only was the number of carers rising, but the intensity of caring was on the increase too, with carers looking after people in their own homes for longer and sometimes having to support more than one vulnerable person.
This allows for direct hearing aid provision by the hearing aid dispenser.
Judge Carlene Smith wrote that she would grant a 60-day stay and allow for an evidentiary hearing.
"I wish my agent would allow me to audition for hearing roles," he said, "just to let them be aware that, 'This actor just happens to be deaf, you should just check him out.' And sometimes they would see: 'Oh, I really like him.
The judge allowed for a hearing on the county's contention that the board's action was "arbitrary and capricious".
He noted that although the rules allowed for a hearing to consider important new evidence, "in my time there had never been one called".
City Opera hopes to bring back its valuable Vox festival of contemporary opera, which allows for a hearing of full-orchestra excerpts from works in progress but is, like so much else, up in the air.
Eidos Audio allows for selective hearing.
