MANILA, Philippines — A petition for a writ of mandamus cannot be used to compel the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to grant or deny a request for a ballot recount, the Supreme Court (SC ...

A Bexar County district court judge is challenging a local docket rotation system that disregards legislative duties given to a specific court.

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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) filed applications for mandamus to compel the Electoral Commission (EC) to complete the collation of outstanding results in these constituencies. In the case of Tema ...

The Allahabad High Court has held that writ jurisdiction cannot be invoked to enter contractual unless exceptional ...

SAN ANTONIO — Judge Christine Vasquez-Hortick of Bexar County filed an appeal asking for her superiors to be kept from requiring her court to participate in the county’s “Presiding Court” centralized ...

A group, the Concerned Citizens of Ekiti Central Senatorial District, has threatened to file application before the court for an order of mandamus to compel the Senate Majority Leader, Opeyemi ...

He emphasised that the mandamus application does not fall within the framework of challenging the validity of election results under the Representation of People Law, PNDCL 284.