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· 4/14/1930

Wilbur v. United States Ex Rel. Kadrie

Citations

  • 281 U.S. 206
  • 50 S. Ct. 320
  • 74 L. Ed. 809
  • 1930 U.S. LEXIS 376

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that mandamus may not “direct the exercise of judgment or discretion in a particular way”
  • naming the Secretary of the Interior as the respondent in a mandamus action directing the consideration of discretion from that agency
  • naming the Secretary of the Interior as the respondent in a mandamus action directing the consideration of discretion from that agency
  • defining ministerial duties as those statutory duties “so plainly prescribed as to be free from doubt and equivalent to a positive command”
  • defining ministerial duties as those statutory duties “so plainly prescribed as to be free from doubt and equivalent to a positive command”
  • agency position on whether certain children were entitled to interest payments from a statutorily created fund

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Judges: Van Devanter

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