CARSTEN v. PSYCHOLOGY EXAMINING COM.

Docket No. L.A. 31202.

27 Cal.3d 793 (1980)

614 P.2d 276

166 Cal. Rptr. 844

ARLENE CARSTEN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. PSYCHOLOGY EXAMINING COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF MEDICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

August 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

William M. McCarty, McCarty & Quackenbush and Douglas C. Brown for Plaintiff and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, and Alvin J. Korobkin, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

May a member of an administrative agency employ judicial processes to challenge the legality of action taken by the very board on which he or she serves as a member? In probing this unique issue we plow untilled ground: our attention has not been directed to authority in any jurisdiction directly on point.1

Appellant Arlene Carsten (hereinafter petitioner) filed a petition for...

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