O'Brien v. Commissioner of Education

The Commissioner of Education resolves many administrative problems in the management of the State department of which he is the executive head. *146In disposing of them he has a wide range of discretion, but he does not adjudicate the legal rights of contesting parties. In addition to these administrative duties, the Commissioner has been vested by law with original jurisdiction over other controversies that are judicial in nature, sometimes to be exercised concurrently by the Commissioner with courts of law, and at other times to be exercised by him alone without recourse to the law courts.* In…