Frechette v. Branford Planning Zoning Commission

The defendant has brought to the attention of this court the case of Hartford v. PublicUtilities Commission, 30 Conn. Sup. 299, in which a distinction is made between an ordinary administrative appeal as being record oriented and an ordinary civil action as being evidence oriented. The conclusion of the cited case is that the rules of discovery do not apply to an administrative appeal and that such an appeal is not a "civil action" as that phrase is used in § 52-197 of the General Statutes and in § 166 of the Practice Book.

The plaintiff contends that this is not an ordinary administrative…