Bogue v. Ames Civil Service Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Controlling Iowa precedent requires an appellant to comply substantially with the service provisions of section 400.27 in order to vest a district court with jurisdiction to decide an appeal from a civil service commission decision.”
• “Nothing in section 400.27 suggests that it was intended to be the exclusive method for obtaining review of commission decisions, and we find that it is an additional method, not a complete substitute for certiorari.”
• plaintiffs filed a petition for certiorari rather than following the appeal procedure in section 400.27
• “[T]he parties could not confer appellate jurisdiction upon the court by consenting to try the case as an appeal.”
• chapter 17A “governs only actions of state agencies, not the actions of local boards”
• “A writ of certiorari will lie where an inferior board exercising judicial functions acts illegally, and illegality is established if a board has not acted in accordance with a pertinent statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).