Action for mandate; scope
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Schepers v. Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction (2012)
Most recently applied in John Belork v. Robin Latimer, Davis Township Trustee and DMK&H Farms, Inc. (rehearing) (May 2016)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.23.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 1. An action for mandate may be prosecuted against any inferior tribunal, corporation, public or corporate officer, or person to compel the performance of any:
(1) act that the law specifically requires; or
(2) duty resulting from any office, trust, or station.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.