Graham v. Cavender

How courts have described this case

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• stating proper relief in Georgia for failure to take prompt judicial action is filing writ of mandamus in another state superior court
• “Being the respondent[], the superior-court judge[] will disqualify, another superior-court judge will be appointed to hear and determine the matter, and the final decision may be appealed[.]”
• Except in the rarest of cases, litigants seeking to invoke this Court’s original jurisdiction must first petition the superior court for such relief.
• This procedure should “be followed in all but those extremely rare situations in which there is a need for the exercise of this court’s original jurisdiction.”
• “The procedure to be followed before seeking to invoke this Court’s original jurisdiction (the need for which is extremely rare) is to file such petition in the appropriate court.”
• appellate court’s “extremely rare” exercise of its original jurisdiction was not warranted over mandamus petition filed against judges and clerk of court; petition should have been initially filed in superior court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).