WILSON

v.

GERNERT ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (38 total)

• Sheehan v. Army & AIR Force Exch. Serv., 619 F.2d 1132 (5th Cir. 1980)
  …opment, 512 F. 2d 617, 620 (5th Cir. 1975). With regard to this final factor, the alternative remedy must be capable of affording full relief as to the subject matter in question. Carter v. Seamans, 411 F. 2d 767, 773 (5th Cir. 1969), cert. denied, 397 U.S. 941, 90 S.Ct. 953, 25 L.Ed.2d 121 (1970). Since we hold that Sheehan can maintain his suit for both monetary and nonmonetary relief under alternative statutes, the lower court did not possess mandamus jurisdiction. VI. Summary We have concluded that t…

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• United States v. Denson, 603 F.2d 1143 (5th Cir. 1979)
  …urselves echoed what appears to be almost an aphorism. See, e. g., In re Estelle, 5 Cir. 1975, 516 F. 2d 480, 483, cert. denied, 1976, 426 U.S. 925, 96 S.Ct. 2637, 49 L.Ed.2d 380; Carter v. Seamans, 5 Cir. 1969,411 F. 2d 767, 773, cert. denied, 1970,397 U.S. 941, 90 S.Ct. 953, 25 L.Ed.2d 121; Belcher v. Grooms, 5 Cir. 1968, 406 F. 2d 14,17; Miller v. Connally, 5 Cir. 1965, 354 F. 2d 206, 208. The writ of mandamus is an order directing a public official or public body to perform a duty exacted by law. It ma…

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• Est. of Arthur K. Watson v. Blumenthal, 586 F.2d 925 (2d Cir. 1978)
  …established” that the mandamus statute does not alter “traditional concepts of the doctrine of sovereign immunity” and “makes no change in the substantive law of mandamus.” E. g., Carter v. Seamans, 411 F. 2d 767, 773 (5th Cir. 1969), cert, denied, 397 U.S. 941, 90 S.Ct. 953, 25 L.Ed.2d 121 (1970). As it was succinctly put by a Massachusetts district judge, “[cjertainly, Congress never intended § 1361 to be interpreted so as to allow the extraordinary writ of mandamus to be converted into a device for ob…