What is the test for review of an action of a public officer or a public body?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Long Island R. Co. v. Hylan, 148 N.E. 189, 240 N.Y. 199 (N.Y. 1925):
When the action of a public officer, or of a public body, is merely legislative, executive or administrative, although it may involve the exercise of discretion, it cannot be reviewed by certiorari; and so it has been so often held that the rule has become elementary-citing People v. Mayor, etc., of New York, 2 Hill, 9; Matter of Mount Morris Square, 2 Hill, 14, and other cases.
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