The hearing officer will be used as a referee to make a proposed decision, subject to the agency's action, or to preside at the hearing at which the agency itself will make the decision. Finally, the statutes provided a method of of review of these quasi-judicial decisions. That was set forth in Section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and it constitutes a clarification of the statutory form of the obscure rules laid down by the various supreme court decisions. The supreme court had held on review, in what they call mandamus and certiorari, in the difference between the state board and a local board, a different rule applied. There was such confusion in the law itself, that this final statute set that to rest.
Mandamus mandates something.
There were three cases which were horribly confusing to the laiety and to the lawyers. But this statute set the procedure all out. Heckendorf Right away. This was part of it. I had many other things to do with each board.