State ex rel. Jim Swoboda v. Missouri Commission on Human Rights, Alisa Warren, and Armstrong Teasdale, LLP

Summary

The Court held that a party seeking review of a noncontested agency decision through mandamus must establish a clear, unequivocal, specific, and presently existing right to relief. Because Swoboda's claimed right to pursue a discrimination claim against the law firm without an employment relationship was not clearly established and instead required statutory adjudication, mandamus was unavailable. The circuit court's judgment granting mandamus was therefore reversed and the case remanded.