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Read filed a writ of certiorari this week after an appellate court denied her request to have charges of murder and fleeing the scene dropped from her second trial after the first ended with a hung jury last year.
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Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Earlier this month, Skadden attorneys petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari on behalf of the NBA in a case involving the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Since other cases can’t simply be appealed to the Supreme Court, a party seeking to be heard on an appeal from a lower court decision—like this one—must file a writ of certiorari.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
After Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper in June rejected the ACC’s request for a stay, the conference filed a petition for what is known as a writ of certiorari at the 1st District Court of Appeal.
—Dara Kam, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
In requesting the writ of certiorari, the oil and gas groups argued that climate change cases are an issue of increasing national importance that would be best resolved at the federal level.
—Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
After years of back-and-forth battling between Fortnite publisher Epic Games and Apple, the gaming company filed a writ of certiorari asking the US Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling in their antitrust case.
—Richard Lawler, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
None of this came to light before the Supreme Court granted the case a writ of certiorari, before the lower courts could scrutinize the case and render their own judgment.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
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Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Earlier this month, Skadden attorneys petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari on behalf of the NBA in a case involving the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Since other cases can’t simply be appealed to the Supreme Court, a party seeking to be heard on an appeal from a lower court decision—like this one—must file a writ of certiorari.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
After Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper in June rejected the ACC’s request for a stay, the conference filed a petition for what is known as a writ of certiorari at the 1st District Court of Appeal.
—Dara Kam, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
In requesting the writ of certiorari, the oil and gas groups argued that climate change cases are an issue of increasing national importance that would be best resolved at the federal level.
—Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
After years of back-and-forth battling between Fortnite publisher Epic Games and Apple, the gaming company filed a writ of certiorari asking the US Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling in their antitrust case.
—Richard Lawler, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
None of this came to light before the Supreme Court granted the case a writ of certiorari, before the lower courts could scrutinize the case and render their own judgment.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
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“Writ of certiorari.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writ%20of%20certiorari. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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