Petition for review


In some jurisdictions, a petition for review is a formal request for an appellate tribunal to review and make changes to the judgment of a lower court or administrative body. If a jurisdiction utilizes petitions for review, then parties seeking appellate review of their case may submit a formal petition for review to an appropriate court. In the federal judiciary of the United States, the term "petition for review" is also used to describe petitions that seek review of federal agency or actions.

Function of petitions for review

In jurisdictions that utilize petitions for review, parties may file a petition in an appellate tribunal that asks the appellate tribunal to determine whether the previous court or tribunal reached the correct outcome. In some jurisdictions, appellate tribunals will not rule on issues that are not raised in petitions for review. Some courts also prohibit parties from filing other motions when they file petitions for review. Because U.S. habeas corpus law requires petitioners for writs of habeas corpus to have exhausted state court remedies if they were convicted in a state court, habeas petitioners must first file a petition for review in the highest court in the state in which they were convicted, and raise all applicable issues, before filing a petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal court. However, in some cases, appellants may pursue issues on appeal by filing both a petition for review as well as a petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Difference between petitions for review and petitions for ''certiorari''

In the common law tradition, only the Court of Chancery had the power to grant prerogative writs that directed inferior tribunals to send a record of proceedings to a higher court for review. Beginning in the sixteenth century, the Court of King's Bench also gained the power to issue prerogative writs. Over time, the power to grant certiorari became the power to grant an order as "a means of controlling inferior courts and persons and bodies having authority to determine issues affecting the rights of individuals". However, writs of certiorari are traditionally only used when "the inferior body has acted without jurisdiction or determined an issue wrongly in law, but not on the ground that it had misconceived a point of law if it had jurisdiction and the proceedings are ex facie regular, nor on the ground that its decision is wrong in fact". In England, the Administrative Court now issues "quashing orders" rather than writs of certiorari. In the United States, the nation's Supreme Court grants writs of certiorari "to review questions of law or to correct errors or excesses by lower courts". However, some state courts in the United States require parties seeking appellate review to submit petitions for review, instead of petitions for certiorari, where the appellate tribunal grants an order that allows for review of the inferior tribunal's decision.

Petition for review of an agency's order or judgment

In the United States, parties may seek review or enforcement of a federal agency order by filing a petition for review in any U.S. court of appeals having jurisdiction. The term "enjoin" in law inherently and indisputably includes the following:, stay,, toll,,,, etc. For example, in 8 U.S.C. § 1252 Congress is basically saying this: "no court shall the removal of any alien pursuant to a final order under this section unless the alien shows by clear and convincing evidence that the entry or execution of such order is prohibited as a matter of law." Every contrary opinion leads to absurdity and "deprivation of rights under color of law," which is a federal crime. "When a court employs the extraordinary remedy of injunction, it directs the conduct of a party, and does so with the backing of its full coercive powers." In this regard, rules 15 and 26 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure expressly state the following:
By containing the word "may" only, the above quoted provision becomes purely discretionary and not mandatory. When a party submits a petition for review, the petitioner "must either identify in record evidence sufficient to support its standing to seek review or, if there is none because standing was not an issue before the agency, submit additional evidence to the court of appeals." Once one party has filed a petition for review, another party may file a cross petition for review, which also seeks review of some or all of the issues previously decided. The reviewing court may, inter alia, vacate the agency's order or judgment. It may also reject the agency's opinion or reverse its judgment and remand the case for "further action or explanation," or it may simply dismiss the petition for review on jurisdictional ground. But under no circumstances can a court deprive a party of rights, especially an American and is litigating pro se in removal proceedings. Filing deadlines do not apply to said individuals if §§ 1252 and 1252 are invoked.