Commonwealth, Department of General Services v. Frank Briscoe Co.

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• finding that “the declaratory judgment procedure may not be used to prejudge issues that are committed for initial resolution to an administrative forum, any more than it may be used as a substitute to establish in advance the merits of an appeal from that forum.”
• plaintiff filed a declaratory judgment action in an attempt to circumvent the administrative procedures required for resolution of the conflict.
• declaratory judgment procedure is not available to decide issues that are “committed for initial resolution to an administrative forum” or “to establish in advance the merits of an appeal from that forum.”
• “[T]he declaratory judgment procedure may not be used to prejudge issues that are committed for initial resolution to an administrative forum, any more than it may be used as a substitute to establish in advance the merits of an appeal from that forum.”
• “[T]he declaratory judgment procedure may not be used to prejudge issues that are committed for initial resolution to an administrative forum, any more than it may be used as a substitute to establish in advance the merits of an appeal from that forum.”
• “[T]he declaratory judgment procedure may not be used to prejudge issues that are committed for initial resolution to an administrative forum, any more than it may be used as a substitute to establish in advance the merits of an appeal from that forum.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).