Department of Natural Resources v. Linchester Sand & Gravel Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that the scope of review regarding legislative actions is whether the body was acting within its legal authority
• emphasizing that judicial review of administrative agency decisions under this inherent power “requires restrained and disciplined judicial judgment so as to not interfere with the agency’s factual conclusions ...” (citations and emphasis omitted)
• stating that the separation of powers doctrine encompasses “a sensible degree of elasticity”
• noting “these agencies at times perform some activities which are legislative in nature and thus have been dubbed as quasi-legislative”
• striking down the subparagraph of the statute which “in substance provides for a de novo trial free of the Administrative Procedure Act.”
• tracing history of right of legislature to delegate powers to administrative agencies

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