Schultze v. Montgomery County Planning Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in the absence of a statute concerning reconsideration, an agency may reconsider a prior decision only because of fraud, surprise, mistake or inadvertence, and not because of a mere change in mind
• holding that, in the absence of a statute concerning reconsideration, an agency may reconsider a prior decision only because of fraud, surprise, mistake or inadvertence, and not because of a mere change in mind
• An administrative body acting in a quasi-judicial capacity has the right to correct errors in its decisions, but this power must not be exercised arbitrarily and can only be exercised where there is justification and good cause
• applying an ordinance providing for reconsideration upon “good cause shown”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).