The state of California's certiorari petition was granted by the Supreme Court in 1985.
Approximately two-thirds of writ of certiorari petitions to the Supreme Court are filed in forma pauperis.
Moreover, Mr. Michael states that more than 5,000 certiorari petitions are filed each year.
The Court strictly enforces its requirements for the preparation and timely filing of certiorari petitions, in order to manage such a massive caseload.
The grant or denial of certiorari petitions by the Court are usually issued as one-sentence orders without explanation.
Another certiorari petition made its way to Washington in 1984, and met with the same fate as its predecessor.
The certiorari petition presented three questions, corresponding to petitioners' three major challenges to the trial court's injunction.
A certiorari petition was sent to and accepted by the Utah State Supreme Court.
On March 19, 2012, the US Supreme Court denied Montgomery's certiorari petition.
Justice John Paul Stevens supposedly picked Jacobson's case out of a pile of "hopeless" certiorari petitions.