Word: mandamus
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Young Americans for Freedom have asked the Washington District Court to issue a write of mandamus forcing the State Department to rule on an application for a visa made by Moise Tshombe, head of secessionist Katanga Province...
...said people at the State House told him that the ballots could not be opened without a court order. DeGuglielmo said earlier that the Commission need not follow his specific suggestions, but unless it took some constructive measures to investigate the allegations, he might seek an immediate writ of mandamus against the Commission. He added he would not wait until Monday, when the City Council has its regular meeting...
...Supreme Court of the U.S. issued a peremptory writ of mandamus to Pennsylvania in the thundering words of Chief Justice John Marshall: If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the U.S. and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals...
...that Harvard has reached its decision in any manner other than honesty, faithfully, and for what it considers to be the best interests of the Arboretum." Then, in the case Ames et al v. Attorney General, filed in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the petitioners sought a writ of mandamus to force the Attorney General to use his name in a test suit. On February 11, 1955, the court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to force the Attorney General to act in such a case...
...Tories on the Row was the Vassall family. Colonel John Vassall and Penclope, the widow of Colonel Henry Vassall, both fled with their families rather than live with the rabble of rebellion. A relative by marriage, Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Oliver, who was a member of the infamous (to revolutionaries) Mandamus Council, also moved to Boston, at the request of a mob of 4000. Another mob, composed of "boys and negroes," persuaded Chief-Justice Stephen Sewall to take his "soft, smooth, insinuating eloquence" elsewhere...