State ex rel. Hodges v. Taft

The complaint presents three issues for consideration:(1) Whether respondent Taft was required to disqualify those petitions and part-petitions without an executed circulator’s compensation statement and/or required to advise the boards of elections to do so;(2) Whether respondent Taft was required to withhold transmission of the proposed law to the General Assembly until the beginning of the next biennium in January 1993; and(3) Whether the prerequisites for mandamus have been satisfied.

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Mandamus

A writ of mandamus is an order, in this case to a public officer, to perform an act which the law…