In my nearly 40 years of experience as a writs attorney at the California Court of Appeal, I sometimes noticed that attorneys would file appeals of non-appealable orders or file mandate or prohibition ...

Habeas corpus rescued Walter Rideau from an unjust prison sentence, but during its long history the great writ has been used to muffle the sighs of prisoners as much as to relieve them. On a lazy ...

The condominium unit which I bought was mortgaged by the developer and eventually foreclosed extrajudicially. I only knew of the foreclosure when a representative of the buyer knocked on my door and ...

As my co-blogger Ilya Somin notes below, White House aide Stephen Miller commented today that the Trump Administration is "actively looking at" whether it would be possible to suspend the writ of ...

Hyderabad: Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana High Court took on file a writ plea against Google LLC, seeking judicial intervention against alleged media trials, smear campaigns and the spread ...