Bharani Padmanabhan v. Board of Registration in Medicine

Summary

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the county court’s dismissal of Dr. Padmanabhan’s petition for relief in the nature of certiorari. The Court held that certiorari is unavailable where ordinary appellate review under G.L. c. 112, §64 exists, and that the petition was duplicative of earlier mandamus actions. Both holdings were based on statutory interpretation and prior case law.