Word: mandamus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School students, acting on behalf of their colleague, Frederic B. Dailey 3L, won a skillful fight against the Cambridge Board of Elections yesterday, when Supreme Court Justice Qua ordered that a writ of mandamus be issued to enlist the plaintiff on the election roll...
...student counselors asked for a writ of mandamus to allow Dailey to vote in the elections next week, while City Solicitor Evarts, on behalf of the local commission, maintained that the third-year man was not intending to reside here...
...State's Lincoln University (for Negroes). When he applied for entrance to Missouri's law school, the University Registrar tactfully suggested that Lincoln could give him a "scholarship" to study law elsewhere. Negro Gaines declined to be sidetracked, got NAACP to bring suit for a writ of mandamus compelling Missouri to admit him. Thereupon the University threw out his application, ruled that, although Lincoln was a State college, its academic credits were not acceptable at the State University...
...invade the territory of private business, that Public Utilities Commissions have been set up in the public interest and may be made more effective. Further, consumers may compel the commission to fix "fair" rates (usually a 6 per cent return on invested capital) by obtaining a court writ of mandamus, and stockholders may receive an injunction from the court when the commission's rulings amount to confiscation of invested capital...
...these reasons and for Texas A. & M.'s "great contribution in helping build and mold this great Southwestern empire," District Judge W. C. Davis in Bryan last week refused the application of a group of Bryan parents for a writ of mandamus compelling the college to admit their daughters...