School Committee of Hatfield v. Board of Education

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• holding that the determination of eligibility for school construction grants was a matter of board discretion, properly within the expertise of an administrative agency and therefore outside the ambit of judicial review
• indicating that art. 10 is in fact one of the provisions from which the due process provisions of the Federal Constitution are derived
• certiorari review not available where denial of school building assistance funds was wholly discretionary, without standards for determining eligibility other than “best interest of the town”
• certiorari review not available where denial of school building assistance funds was wholly discretionary, without standards for determining eligibility other than “best interest of the town”

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