certiorari

How To Use certiorari In A Sentence

• Writ of certiorari - An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal. (See certiorari in Foreign Words Glossary.
• The applicant commenced proceedings in this Court for writs of mandamus, certiorari and injunctions.
• Certainly, insofar as the order nisi seeks writs of mandamus and certiorari, it is outside of the time limit.
• I am just suggesting that there was minor error in the way that I have worded it, because I have never made out a writ of certiorari and prohibition.
• If a lower court commits a factual or legal error, the Supreme Court will not grant a writ of certiorari simply to review that error.
• The Court of Appeal granted certiorari to quash the council's decision since the section required reasons to be given at the same time as the decision was communicated.
• Certainly, insofar as the order nisi seeks writs of mandamus and certiorari, it is outside of the time limit.
• Gabrielson Granger J. issued Certiorari quashing an order of estreatment where the nature of the default was simply stated to be ‘Fail to Comply’.
• In an attempt to purge Latin from the language of the law, California law has for many years used the term writ of mandate in place of writ of mandamus, and writ of review in place of writ of certiorari. The Volokh Conspiracy » PC
• Stare decisis, amicus curiae, writs of certiorari, all that stuff. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR