Court Opinion

ID: 9793377
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:46:34.990992+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:04:40.145158
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BISTLINE, Justice,
dissenting.
In my earlier opinion released in June of this year, I expressed the view that the Court, time permitting, might very well determine that exhaustion of administrative remedies is not a prerequisite to a § 1983 action. In denying a rehearing the Court eschews the opportunity of additional time which the petition for rehearing presents, as well as authority which appears most convincing.
On my own reflection of almost four months since the opinions were released, I am strongly brought to the conclusion that administrative proceedings ended with the decision of the Ada County Zoning Commission to grant the permit in March of 1980. Although the proposition is not utilized, it seems rather clearly to be the consensus of the Court membership that a staff member is not a person who can appeal a staff determination. On that basis it is possible to hold that there was not an appeal and *269the County Commissioners did not properly have the controversy before them. I would do so.