Kouri v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A federal court . . . ordinarily may not issue a writ of mandamus to compel a state court to exercise a jurisdiction entrusted to it.”
• The All Writs Act \extends to all persons who are in a position to frustrate the implementation of a court order or the proper administration of justice.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “As a general matter, personal jurisdiction may be acquired by a litigant’s appearance or participation in the lawsuit. Moreover, objections to personal jurisdiction are waived if not timely asserted by motion or in the answer.” (citations omitted)
• federal court “ordinarily may not issue a writ of mandamus to compel a state court to exercise jurisdiction entrusted to it, nor may a federal court (with the exception of the Supreme Court) review a decision of a state tribunal through a writ of certiorari”
• federal court “ordinarily may not issue a writ of mandamus to compel a state court to exercise jurisdiction entrusted to it, nor may a federal court (with the exception of the Supreme Court) review a decision of a state tribunal through a writ of certiorari”
• federal court “ordinarily may not issue a writ of mandamus to compel a state court to exercise jurisdiction entrusted to it, nor may a federal court (with the exception of the Supreme Court) review a decision of a state tribunal through a writ of certiorari”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).