Word: certiorari
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Klubeck said yesterday that the petition, called a certiorari, would ask the Court to review Popkin's case question by question. "It is very important that this conflict between the district courts be resolved," Klubeck said...
...minutes before 10 on Friday mornings, the marble corridors of the Supreme Court building's main floor echo with the clatter of handcarts being pushed toward the well-guarded main conference room next door to the Chief Justice's office. The carts contain petitions for certiorari (requests for review, the normal means by which most cases reach the court), briefs, transcripts, memos from clerks, notebooks-every Justice's file on virtually every case that may come up during the taxing all-day session. It usually takes two or three carts to hold each Justice's material...
...Most cases can come before the court only by way of a petition for certiorari, which the court may grant...
...junior court" does not come close to running the Supreme Court. Clerks have been known to help draft an opinion, and they serve the function of conveying what their old professors think (often not much) of their new bosses' thinking. But mostly they toil away at screening certiorari petitions (appeals for review), writing memos that sum up the issues, and doing the research that goes into well-honed opinions...