Sutton v. Dubuque City Council

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a certiorari action was a proper remedy for challenging the legality of a city council’s rezoning action
• adopting a factors analysis for determining whether a particular rezoning decision is legislative or quasi-judicial
• finding declaratory judgment action was improper and that certiorari was the exclusive remedy to challenge the rezoning of property
• providing the writ of certiorari is the exclusive remedy to “review the decisions of city councils or county boards of supervisors acting in a quasi-judicial capacity when the claimant alleges illegality of the action taken”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).