Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. “[T]he rights of a relator in a mandamus suit, claim for which was asserted by an alternative writ granted and served pri- or to action taken by the respondent city and its officials in an effort to avoid having to comply with its commands, would be affected by any such subsequent action, and that a peremptory writ would issue in accordance with the alternative writ though .the action taken, had it occurred before the issuance of the alternative writ, would have been a good defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coral Springs Street Systems, Inc. v. City of Sunrise

2. “the final adoption of the [emergency] ordinance * * * is in contemplation of law an attempted judicial decree by the legislative power of the city against the then existing rights of the relator, and therefore that such ordinance as applied to relator, is unreasonable and arbitrary, as held by the circuit judge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 100 So. 2d 411 - Broach v. Young