Legal Opinion
In Re Justices of the Superior Court Department of the Massachusetts Trial Court
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 2000No. 00-1168PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in name of the Justices of the Superior Court of the Massachusetts Trial Court, asks us to exercise our mandamus authority under the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to order the district court to decide or otherwise dispose of a pretrial petition for habe-as corpus relief which the Commonwealth claims is interfering with state criminal proceedings. Although this power is used exceedingly sparingly, we determine that this case poses an issue of such importance, and one so elemental to the proper role of the federal judiciary in our…
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