A mandamus is an order to a public agency or governmental body to perform an act required by law when it has neglected or refused to do so. A person may petition for a writ of mandamus when an official has refused to fulfill a legal obligation, such as ordering an agency to release public records.
New Hampshire Petition or Application for Writ of Mandamus or Mandate for Refusal of Administrative Agency to Act on Petition
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A (writ of) mandamus is an order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the government official to properly fulfill their official duties or correct an abuse of discretion. See e.g. Cheney v. United States Dist.
(b) When any writ of mandamus has been issued, requiring the party to whom it is directed to make a return, if the party fails to do so, the court may issue a peremptory mandamus.
A peremptory writ of mandate, or mandamus, is a judicial writ (i.e. order) to any governmental body, government official, or lower court requiring that the they perform an act or cease to act where the court finds that an official law, duty or judgment requires them to do so.
In Anglo-American legal systems, mandamus (Latin for ?we command?) is used by courts of superior jurisdiction to compel the performance of a specific act refused by a lower court, such as the hearing of a case falling within the latter's authority.
Mandate refers to the traditional writ, codified in Code of Civil Procedure sections 1085 and 1086, which require the absence of a ?plain, speedy, and adequate remedy? as a basis for extraordinary relief. Mandamus refers to the administrative writ, and it is almost always preceded by the modifier administrative.
A writ of mandamus is a remedy that can be used to compel a lower court to perform an act that is ministerial in nature and that the court has a clear duty to do under law. When filing a petition for writ of mandamus, you must show that you have no other remedy available.
Generally, a Petition for Writ of Administrative Mandamus is a request that a Superior Court review and reverse the final decision or order of an administrative agency. It is brought under California Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) §1094.5. The terms mandamus and mandate are synonymous.
New Hampshire Cases 'A writ of mandamus is used to compel a public official to perform a ministerial act that the official has refused to perform, or to vacate the result of a public official's act that was performed arbitrarily or in bad faith.
