Word: mandamus
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...choice but to appeal to the courts. They could not sue Harvard themselves, nor force the Attorney General to do so; yet their strongest feeling has been that some judicial test is necessary. The case of John S. Ames et al.V.Attorney General, therefore , is for a writ of Mandamus to compel Fingold to rehear their application according to "a proper appreciation of his own duty and the rules of law applicable to the questions involved "Meanwhile there were still quiet efforts to smooth out affairs. Two Association directors had been meeting with Harvard officials, and once a nonlegal delegation discussed...
...some 200 pages, and there is little fat in them. the major argument between petitioners and the Attorney General are on the question of his discretion. His view precludes any review of his decision at ll while the petitioners think otherwise, at least so far as a writ of Mandamus is concerned. The Attorney General considers it his duty to look into the merits of the case before lending his name, while the petitioners would limit him to deciding whether the case was doubtful and whether the applications were made in good faith...
...case came up for a hearing two weeks ago before Chief Justice Qua and Justices Williams, Lummus, and Couhihan. Both sides spoke at length, but the Court for the most part interrupted only Mr. Dodge. The questions referred to the writ of Mandamus, and the merits of the Arboretum dispute itself were not stressed. At one point the Chief Justice commented, "Petitioners position appears to be a novel...
...dodger under the Selective Service Act, has just received word that the U.S. Attorney in his home state of Oregon has stated that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which permits him to be tried in Massachusetts, is unconstitutional. He will surrender French's files only on a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court...
...People have got to concentrate when you start giving them the old habeas corpus mandamus potatus. Don't try to be required reading. Be a diversion . . . You remind me of an old ham in vaudeville stretching his laughs and sweating his bows and keeping the other acts hanging around cracking peanuts or laundering their tights in the basin when it would have been more effective to quit on a loud laugh five minutes sooner . . . The trouble with you, Pegler, is when you have got nothing more to say you say it, and say it, and say it. when...