Shiny Happy People. An elderly patient admitted into the E.R. for a heart condition sees a familiar face, a long lost love who happens to be in the E.R. as well for a fractured arm, and the staff find ...
A writ of certiorari is a petition for appeal to a higher court as of discretion to be granted by the higher court and not an appeal by right. Writs are generally filed as extraordinary relief requesting court intervention at the higher level to settle an issue at the lower court.
The Supreme Court gets to choose the appellate cases it will considerâit grants certiorari (or âcertâ) when it agrees to decide a case. Grants of cert are quite rareâthe Court typically agrees to take on somewhere between 100 and 150 of the 7,000 cases it comes across each year. (See â About the Supreme Court .â). For further reading on a related topic see State vs. Federal Prosecution.