B.S. v. Department of Children & Family Services

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that party’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies will be excused if claim alleges constitutional violation and administrative agency lacks authority to grant adequate relief
• remanding case with direction to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction because of failure to exhaust administrative remedies
• ‘‘[t]he requirement of exhaustion may arise from explicit statutory language’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• exhaustion was required because Commissioner of Public Health had ‘‘expertise necessary’’ and was ‘‘uniquely qualified’’ to determine whether health code regulation was reasonably related to health and sanitation
• “[i]t is a settled principle of administrative law that if an adequate administrative remedy exists, it must be exhausted before the Superior Court will obtain jurisdiction to act in the matter”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).