The Supreme Court has held that the Writ of Certiorari cannot be issued by the High Court to review or reweigh the evidence ...

The Supreme Court has allowed a person being investigated for illegal access to information systems, illegal interference with data and illegal interception, to file an application for a certiorari ...

A writ of certiorari is a discretionary, extraordinary writ—and is therefore never granted as a matter of right. See, e.g., King v. Taylor, 188 N.C. 450, 451, 124 S.E. 751, 751 (1924) (explaining that ...

The United States government has urged the Supreme Court to dismiss "the petition for a writ of certiorari" filed by Mumbai-attack convict Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, ...

As I suggested yesterday, there appears to be a disconnect between the statute that gives the Court certiorari power and the Court's rules and practice. The former says the Court can take "cases" ...

Dr. Stephen Thaler, Ph.D., a computer scientist and inventor, has petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to consider the question of whether the Patent Act restricts the definition of an ...

Every year the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are faced with about 7,500 writs of certiorari seeking appellate review of lower court decisions, granting only 75 to 80. It takes four justices to ...

Court staff attributed a decrease in issued opinions to fewer appeals from lower courts but declined to comment on why the court's granting fewer petitions for writ of certiorari. Georgia lawyers ...

The United States government has urged the Supreme Court to dismiss "the petition for a writ of certiorari" (a legal document that requests the Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision) filed ...

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