Hawaiian Trust Co. v. Brown

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• holding that the court has the authority to issue mandamus to the Secretary under the All Writs Act
• concluding that the petitioner had no adequate alternative means for relief when she contacted the regional office more than 30 times before filing her petition with the Court
• holding “that this court has jurisdiction to issue extraordinary writs under the All Writs Act”
• holding \that this court has jurisdiction to issue extraordinary writs under the All Writs Act\
• noting that a requirement for a writ to issue is that the petitioner must lack adequate alternative means to obtain the relief sought
• noting that “petition for relief in and of itself’ may be “enough to bring [a disputed] matter to the attention of the Secretary, and effectively serve[ ] ... to exhaust that administrative remedy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).