Minor v. Cochise County

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that when an administrative agency is empowered to act, it should be allowed to do so before the courts intervene
• rejecting argument that exhaustion would be futile when there was “nothing in the record which would indicate that the [administrative board] would not have seriously considered appellants’ position”
• “The doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies applies where a claim is cognizable in the first instance by the administrative agency alone.”
• “It is a well recognized principle of law that a party must exhaust his administrative remedies before appealing to the courts.”
• “[F]ailure to exhaust administrative remedies deprives the superior court of authority to hear the party's claim.”
• where agency considers claim in the first instance, exhaustion of administrative remedies applies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).