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        "text": "ARNOLD, Judge.\nIn the decision reported in Penuel v. Hiatt, 97 N.C. App. 616, 389 S.E.2d 289 (1990), this Court vacated the order of the superior court directing the Division of Motor Vehicles [hereinafter DMV] to restore petitioner\u2019s driving privileges. This Court then remanded the proceeding to the superior court for entry of an order reinstating the order of the DMV denying the restoration of petitioner\u2019s driving privileges. This decision was based on our reasoning that the superior court had no jurisdiction to review the DMV\u2019s order denying petitioner\u2019s request for conditional restoration of his driving privileges. We held that the superior court did not have jurisdiction because N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 20-25 did not provide for superior court review of mandatory license revocations and also because petitioner had failed to show any arbitrary or capricious act by the DMV in denying the restoration.\nAfter our opinion in Penuel was filed, our Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether a superior court has authority to review mandatory license revocations by the DMV. In Davis v. Hiatt, 326 N.C. 462, 390 S.E.2d 338 (1990), the petitioner\u2019s driving privileges were permanently revoked by the respondent-Commissioner pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 20-17(2) and N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 2049(e). The petitioner filed a petition in superior court asking for review of the Commissioner\u2019s actions. The respondent answered and moved to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. The superior court denied the motion to dismiss and held that the respondent erred in permanently revoking the petitioner\u2019s driving privileges. Our Supreme Court held that although the petitioner did not have a right to appeal the mandatory revocation under G.S. \u00a7 20-25 or under Chapter 150B of the North Carolina General Statutes, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Commissioner\u2019s actions could be reviewed by the superior court by writ of certiorari. This is because petition for \u201ccertiorari is the appropriate process to review the proceedings of inferior courts and of bodies and officers exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions in cases where no appeal is provided by law.\u201d Davis at 465, 390 S.E.2d at 340 (quoting Russ v. Board of Education, 232 N.C. 128, 130, 59 S.E.2d 589, 591 (1950)). Justice Webb, writing for the Court, stated \u201cthat if a petition alleges facts sufficient to establish the right of review on certiorari its validity as a pleading is not impaired by the fact the petitioner does not specifically pray that the court issue a writ of certiorari.\u201d Id.\nIn the present case, as in Davis, the petitioner pled sufficient facts to show he did not have a right to appeal from a final decision of an agency. He could then petition for a writ of certiorari to have the case reviewed by the superior court. Thus, we hold the superior court did have jurisdiction to review the case. Accordingly, the order of the superior court is affirmed.\nAffirmed.\nJudges JOHNSON and Orr concur.",
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      "Warlick, Mils ted, Dotson & Carter, by John T. Carter, Jr., for petitioner appellee.",
      "Attorney General Lacy H. Thornburg, by Assistant Attorney General Mabel Y. Bullock, for the Division of Motor Vehicles, respondent appellant."
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    "head_matter": "LARRY JAMES PENUEL v. WILLIAM S. HIATT, Commissioner North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles\nNo. 894SC679\n(Filed 4 September 1990)\nAutomobiles and Other Vehicles \u00a7 113 (NCI4th)\u2014 mandatory revocation of driver\u2019s license \u2014 superior court review by certiorari\nThe superior court had authority to review the mandatory revocation of petitioner\u2019s driver\u2019s license by a writ of certiorari.\nAm Jur 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic \u00a7 144.\nAPPEAL by respondent from Orders entered 12 April 1989 by Judge James R. Strickland in ONSLOW County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 6 February 1990.\nThe facts of this case are set out in Penuel v. Hiatt, 97 N.C. App. 616, 389 S.E.2d 289 (1990). On 16 July 1990, petitioner filed a petition to rehear pursuant to Rule 31 of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure. This Court granted the petition to rehear on 31 July 1990.\nWarlick, Mils ted, Dotson & Carter, by John T. Carter, Jr., for petitioner appellee.\nAttorney General Lacy H. Thornburg, by Assistant Attorney General Mabel Y. Bullock, for the Division of Motor Vehicles, respondent appellant."
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