Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Tracy

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 14, 1919PublishedCited by 5 opinions

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO .RENEW APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. The case is stated in the opinion.

1Per curiam

For the purpose of redressing assumed violations of the Constitution and laws of the United States by means of habeas corpus, the jurisdiction of other competent courts to afford relief may not be passed by and the original jurisdiction of this court be invoked, in the absence of exceptional conditions justifying such course. Matters v. Ryan, ante, 375.

When leave to file the petition for habeas corpus was previously denied, without a suggestion as to the existence of any exceptional condition which would have justified a contrary view, such refusal presumably was based on the existence of the…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Oili v. ChangHawaii Supreme Court · 1976
  2. Bowen v. JohnstonDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1944
  3. Yorke v. FrankCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1961
  4. Dixon v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  5. Yorke v. FrankCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1961

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