State Ex Rel. Althouse v. City of Madison

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “it is not the prerogative of the common council to reach a conclusion with respect to the unconstitutionality or invalidity of the proposed ordinance”
• stating that \it is not the prerogative of the common council to reach a conclusion with respect to the unconstitutionality or invalidity of the proposed ordinance\
• \[T]he fact that the duty imposed involves the construction of a statute does not mean that the obligation set forth in the statute may not be compelled by mandamus.\
• “Those reserved legislative powers are exercised with particular appropriateness under circumstances where the people are of the opinion that their elected representatives are not acting in response to the public will.”
• “[M]andamus is appropriate to compel the exercise of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).