The second stage in the hearing case lifecycle is hearing appeal approval. The purpose of this stage is to verify that a hearing can be scheduled for the item under appeal. During this stage, each appealed item linked to the hearing appeal case is either approved or rejected, typically by a hearing case supervisor.
If multiple cases are part of the hearing appeal, each one of these appealed cases must be approved. Only approved appealed cases will be considered at the hearing scheduled for the hearing case.
The status of the hearing appeal is based on the status of the item under appeal. If an appealed item on a hearing appeal is approved, the status of the hearing appeal case is also approved. Note, however, if there are multiple items under appeal and one of those is rejected on a hearing appeal case is set to rejected, the hearing appeal status remains open.
Note that issues added to the hearing case appeal do not require approval.