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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Vargas finds petitioners are entitled to a writ of mandamus to prevent further distribution of federal funds by the governor under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act. Despite previous rulings regarding allocation of federal funds, no bright-line rule establishes whether such money falls under control of the executive or legislative branches; rather, this court must determine on a case-by-case basis whether specific funds are under the purview of the governor or the legislature. In this case, the broad discretion left to states in administering distribution of federal funds included in the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act requires the money be placed under the control of the legislature, as the governor would be unable to distribute the funds without infringing on the legislative branch's "constitutional duty to appropriate."