A writ of certiorari may be granted by the Supreme and circuit courts, when inferior courts, officers, boards, or tribunals have exceeded their jurisdiction, and there is no writ of error or appeal nor, in the judgment of the court, any other plain, speedy, and adequate remedy.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-31-1
Power to grant writ--Purposes for which used
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case In Re the Guardianship of S.M.N. (2010)
Most recently applied in Ageton v. Jackley (March 2016)
Source: CCivP 1877, § 685; CL 1887, § 5507; RCCivP 1903, § 754; RC 1919, § 2996; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.0401.
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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.