Requesting a Hearing (excerpt from Title 1 DCMR, Chapter 28)   2805.1  Unless otherwise required by statute or these Rules, to commence a case by a request for a hearing, a written request filed in this administrative court is required.   2805.2  While a request for a hearing need not follow a specific format, it shall contain a short, plain and reasonably comprehensible statement that the party requests a hearing, and a summary description of the nature of the dispute, and the relief sought, including, where applicable, the benefit amount or sum certain being sought.