Editing Certiorari (section)

===Administrative law===
In the [[administrative law]] context, the [[common law|common-law]] writ of ''certiorari'' was historically used by lower courts in the United States for [[judicial review]] of decisions made by an [[administrative agency]] after an adversarial hearing. Some states have retained this use of the writ of ''certiorari'' in state courts, while others have replaced it with statutory procedures. In the federal courts, this use of ''certiorari'' has been abolished and replaced by a [[civil action]] under the [[Administrative Procedure Act (United States)|Administrative Procedure Act]] in a [[United States district court]] or in some circumstances a petition for review in a United States court of appeals.

In 1936, the [[Supreme Court of California]] held that this use of ''certiorari'' was unconstitutional under the [[Constitution of California]], then in 1939 approved of its replacement with [[Writ of mandate (California)|mandate]] (California's version of ''[[mandamus]]'').<ref name="Walker">{{cite journal |last1=Walker |first1=Sam |title=Judicially Created Uncertainty: The Past, Present, and Future of the California Writ of Administrative Mandamus |journal=UC Davis Law Review |date=Spring 1990 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=783–839 |url=https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/24/3/articles/DavisVol24No3_Walker.pdf |access-date=3 April 2022}}</ref>