Court Opinion

ID: 9507165
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:19:24.877807+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:15.788879
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE SHEA
dissenting:
*540There are many factors concerning this opinion which bother me deeply, but because of the speed with which it was sent down I have not had time to formulate a dissent. For this reason I must confine my comments at this point to the final paragraph of the majority opinion — for which there is no foundation in law. The paragraph states:
“Such findings of fact and conclusions of law shall be propounded and entered by the Board of Natural Resources, served on the parties hereto, and returned to us for review and approval within 90 days from the date hereof.”
Where in the law, may I ask, does it give this Court the power to exercise continuing jurisdiction over governmental agencies once we have remanded the case to them for further determinations? And where in the law do we have the authority without an appropriate petition, after the governmental agency has acted, to completely bypass the Administrative Procedure Act and the District Court, in the event one or more of the aggrieved parties would have chosen to file a petition for review in the District Court?
There is nothing in the Administrative Procedure Act which authorizes this Court to tell any agency how soon it may act after a remand from this Court. There is nothing that I know of in any of the remaining statutes or case law of this State to justify such a result. Once this Court has acted on an appeal and remanded a case, either to a District Court, or to an administrative agency, we lose jurisdiction. We cannot sit here like a king with strings still attached to the parties and directing them like puppets to comply with our orders. Here we have told the agency to act and get the results back to us within ninety days. This is judicial usurpation at its worst.