The writ of prohibition may be issued by the Supreme and circuit courts, to an inferior tribunal, or to a corporation, board, or person, in all cases where there is not a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-30-2
Power to issue writ where ordinary remedy inadequate
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Cummings v. Mickelson (1993)
Most recently applied in Rapid City Journal v. Callahan (June 2022)
Source: CCivP 1877, § 709; CL 1887, § 5531; RCCivP 1903, § 778; RC 1919, § 3020; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.4402.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.