Business & Professional People for the Public Interest v. Illinois Commerce Commission

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a decision by an agency that lacks jurisdiction or lacks the inherent power to make or enter the particular order involved is void and may be attacked at any time or in any court, either directly or collaterally
• finding, to the extent an agency acts without statutory authority, it acts outside its jurisdiction
• \the concept of duty is at the heart of distinction drawn by the economic loss rule\
• “We are confident *** that a reviewing court can make the appropriate distinction between an erroneous decision and one which lacks statutory authority.”
• Illinois Commerce Commission erred in imposing settlement not agreed to by all of the parties and interveners
• “We are confident, however, that a reviewing court can make the appropriate distinction between an erroneous decision and one which lacks statutory authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).