Town of Warren v. Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council

How courts have described this case

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• agency’s determination that a proposed hazardous waste facility was “feasible and deserving of state assistance” was not “judicial or quasi-judicial”
• certiorari review not available because determination that proposal to locate hazardous waste site was feasible and deserving of state assistance was political in nature
• certiorari review not available because determination that proposal to locate hazardous waste site was feasible and deserving of state assistance was political in nature
• decision to appropriate properly for public use not judicial or quasi-judicial so not subject to review under writ of certiorari
• scheme for hazardous waste facility siting established by G. L. c. 21D and G. L. c. 40A, § 9, overrides certain local ordinances that would prohibit such siting
• “It is clear that the Legislature did not intend by G. L. c. 214, § 7A, to authorize injunctive relief against an agency of the Commonwealth that was created by the Legislature to monitor and implement the process for siting hazardous waste facilities”

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