Word: mandamus
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...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...
...before the next general election, but allows the Governor to fill the vacancy if Congress is in session. Senator Kendrick died 52 hours outside the one-year period and Congress was not sitting. Therefore, it was argued, a special election was necessary. Republican hard-shells promptly got out a mandamus to force Governor Miller to set a day for the voting. The State Sen ate rallied to the Governor and, in special session a fortnight ago, rushed through both houses an amendment to the election laws to allow for Joe O'Mahoney's appointment. In his youth...
...credit situation are such as to render a prompt return to the gold standard entirely feasible. The danger of an uncontrolled inflation, which is already serious, increases with every day of governmental delay in announcing a definite stabilization plan." Gold Demand. In Washington, Halsey K. Davis filed a mandamus action in the District of Columbia Supreme Court alleging that on Oct. 25 he had demanded at the Treasury gold coin in payment for a $20 gold certificate and had been refused. He demanded that Secretary Woodin be ordered to pay him $20 in gold-of the old value...
...military training. Student Coale claimed the same exemption on the grounds that the Methodist Church is against war. He was promptly suspended by Maryland's President Raymond Allen Pearson. Aided by his father, Ennis Coale took his case to court. A circuit judge granted him a writ of mandamus to force the University to reinstate...