Sentence examples for applied for a writ from inspiring English sources

Some three years later, on December 16 , 1968 respondent applied for a writ of habeas corpus.

The order was reversed by the circuit court of appeals, and the complainants have applied for a writ of certiorari, which is granted.

Rep. 718, the petitioners having been found guilty of a contempt of court by the district court of Indiana, applied for a writ of habeas corpus.

He applied for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied both by the county court and the Court of Criminal Appeals.

Hawk then applied for a writ of habeas corpus in the federal District Court for Nebraska, but was told that he must first try coram nobis in the State courts.

For example, although the 5th Circuit Court found that Texas' law was in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a version of the law remained in effect, problems surfaced with its administration in the weeks leading up to November 8, and the State applied for a writ of certiori in the end of September.

I said I was convinced that he did not act alone". In the meantime, the Supreme Court denied a last-minute request from Lloyd Fisher, who had replaced Reilly as chief defense counsel, to apply for a writ of habeas corpus.

On 23 March 1923 he appeared in R v Secretary of State for Home Affairs ex parte O'Brien [1923] 2 KB 361 at a Divisional Court consisting of Mr Justice Avory and Mr Justice Salter to apply for a writ of habeas corpus for O'Brien as a test case to allow the release of the others.

The case came on for hearing upon the alternative writ, and the return, and the company applied for a reference to take testimony on the issue raised by the allegations in the application for the writ and the return thereto, as to whether the rate fixed by the commission was reasonable, fair, and just.

Given that situation, the artist applied for an injunction, accounting, and damages and obtained a writ of seizure before judgment under art.

McCafferty, challenging the reasons for his re-arrest, applied for his freedom with a writ of habeas corpus.