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249 U.S. 551

Ex parte Tracy

Supreme Court of the United States

Motion submitted April 21, 1919.

Decided April 28, 1919.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1919-04-28

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

1 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“other and appropriate sources of judicial power,”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Craig v. Hecht

Relies on Matters v. Ryan · Ex parte Tracy

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Motion denied · Decided 1919-04-28

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Cited by 21 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1961

11 federal appellate ·

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¶1MOTION FOR LEAVE TO .RENEW APPLICATION FOR habeas corpus · Case Law">WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO.

¶2No.-, Original.

¶3Where this court denies leave to file a petition for habeas corpus, because of the competency of other courts to afford the relief sought, a motion for leave to apply for the writ to' the District Court will be denied as superfluous.

¶4Motion denied.

¶5The case is stated in the opinion.

¶6(See also post, 588.)

¶7Mr. C. M. Oneill for petitioner.

¶8Per Curiam:

¶9For 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.

¶10When 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 right to seek, if desired, other and appropriate sources of relief. From this it follows that although we pass the application of the doctrine, that the refusal of habeas corpus is not the thing adjudged precluding a subsequent granting of such writ' *552upon the same facts, nevertheless there is here no reason to grant the order prayed, since the previous order rested upon the right and duty to petition for relief, if habeas corpus was desired, to other and appropriate sources of judicial power.

¶11No reason, therefore, exists for granting the motion and to avoid any implication of a necessity which does not obtain, the motion is

¶12Denied.

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