Foreman v. Whitty

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• recognizing the Election Code authorizes mandamus proceedings to “originate in the appellate courts”
• issuing conditional writ of mandamus against city council for failing to perform its collective ministerial duty
• Houston residents “filed a referendum petition requesting the City Council to reconsider and repeal its equal rights ordinance and, if it did not repeal the ordinance, to put it to popular vote”
• \Mandamus may issue to compel public officials to perform ministerial acts.\
• noting this recent statutory elongation

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