ARS 12-901

I will defer to licensed Arizona attorneys on specific procedural matters, but in general, an administrative hearing is an opportunity to be heard, and convince the hearing officer or administrative law judge that the decision reached below was not reasonable in light of the facts that the lower authority had its disposal. The higher up the chain of appeal you go, the narrower and more legalistic the issues become. So if one appeals a decision just for the sake of doing it, without compelling facts indicating that the procedures in place were not followed properly, one is likely to lose an administrative hearing. If facts indicate an arbitrary decision, unheedful of facts/evidence justifying otherwise, it is worth your contending. You might want to use to start a conversation with an Arizona attorney to more specifically weigh the pros and cons of pursuing this. Good luck on your matter.