OATH TLC Hearings by Month: Past Year and Scheduled

In short: Over the 12 months from October 2025 to September 2026, 56,308 taxi/FHV summonses had an OATH hearing date, roughly 4,700 a month on average. The monthly number swings a lot, from about 2,070 (February 2026) to about 6,720 (March 2026). At the time of our fetch, 2,052 more hearings were already scheduled from October 2026 into early 2027. These are scheduled dates. The data doesn't show whether each hearing went ahead, was moved, or ended in a default.

This page uses the hearing_date field of OATH's official case dataset. It answers a narrow question, how busy the TLC hearing calendar is, and then turns to what actually matters to you: your own date and the deadlines around it.

The hearing calendar

Why the months jump around

The scheduled-hearing count depends on when summonses were written and how OATH spaced them out. February 2026 is low (2,070), and March 2026 is high (6,718). The data can't tell us whether that was a scheduling choice, holiday timing, or fewer summonses written in the weeks before.

The right-hand bars look small for a simple reason: most summonses that will be heard in November or December 2026 haven't been written yet. Don't read them as a drop in hearings.

What the numbers mean for your own hearing

The calendar is busy, but your date is fixed on your summons, and OATH's deadlines run from it. OATH gives these options (OATH):

The reschedule rule comes from OATH's pre-hearing procedure rules, which say no more than one request to reschedule will be granted for each party for each summons. OATH's Know Your Rights page says the same.

Our guides go step by step: OATH hearings for TLC drivers, what to expect at a phone hearing, how to reschedule and what to do after a default. The summons deadline calculator works out the dates for you.

Using the calendar to plan

A few practical points follow from the deadlines above:

• Start early. The phone-hearing window opens one month before your date and closes three business days before it. If your hearing is next week, you may already be close to the cutoff.
• Business days, not calendar days. Weekends and city holidays don't count toward the three- and five-day notice periods. Count carefully around holidays such as Thanksgiving and New Year's, or use the calculator.
• One reschedule only. Save it for a real conflict, such as a medical appointment or a trip you can't move. After that, a missed date becomes a default.
• Gather evidence now. Trip logs, dashcam clips and app data can be overwritten or hard to get later. See evidence for a TLC hearing.
• Check the summons in the record. If the hearing date in OATH's record differs from the paper, contact OATH before the earlier date.

What this data can and cannot tell you

It can tell you how many taxi/FHV summonses had a hearing date in each month, and how many are already on the calendar ahead.

It cannot tell you:

• Whether a hearing happened. The hearing status and result fields are blank for taxi rows. A date in the past could be a held hearing, a default, a payment before the hearing, or a case that was moved.
• How long hearings take or how long decisions take.
• Outcomes or fines. Not recorded for taxi rows.
• Which hearing method (phone, online, mail, in person) was used.
• The full future calendar. New summonses keep being added.

The figures come from a single fetch on 2026-10-12. The dataset updates daily, so the next fetch will show more future hearings.