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· 9/19/1996

Hanrahan v. Williams

Citations

  • 673 N.E.2d 251
  • 174 Ill. 2d 268
  • 220 Ill. Dec. 339
  • 1996 Ill. LEXIS 86

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  • explaining that Illinois circuit courts are authorized to review administrative actions either directly under state’s Administrative Review Law or, when that provision does not apply, by means of a common law writ of certiorari
  • “the Board’s parole-release decisions *** closely resemble those decisions found to be unreviewable in the federal courts”
  • “[a] common law writ of certiorari is a general method for obtaining circuit court review of administrative actions when the act conferring power on the agency does not expressly adopt the Administrative Review Law and provides for no other method of review
  • board has discretion to grant parole

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Judges: Miller

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