People v. Cianciola

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that mandamus may be used to control an officer’s discretion only “where the discretion reposed in the officer has been grossly abused, or has been arbitrarily or capriciously exercised.”
• “In arriving at the legislative intent in the passage of a law, this court will not consider an assertion in the brief of counsel as to what a newspaper said that a lawyer, however eminent, said the law meant at the time it was passed.”
• “In arriving at the legislative intent in the passage of a law, this court will not consider an assertion in the brief of counsel as to what a newspaper said that a lawyer, however eminent, said the law meant at the time it was passed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).