Because of the importance of the questions presented, we granted that petition, as well as a similar petition filed by the government in Booker's case.

Several hundred of the Guantanamo detainees had individual habeas corpus petitions filed on their behalf.

In 1952 residents filed a petition [1] for incorporation as an independent city since the residents did not wish to be annexed by San Antonio.

Under the law, petitions filed too late must be dismissed.

By a 2-to-1 vote, the court rejected a petition filed six years ago by a private group called the Save the Narmada Movement.

Overall has filed numerous petitions with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which insists the complex's radiation output levels are safe.

These are almost exclusively state offenses and thus petitions filed by state prisoners.

I want the petition filed first thing in the morning, after you talk to the judge.

Their petition is a hopeless mishmash of maybes and what-ifs, and filed under oath without the slightest hint of the real truth.

Since 1990, about 20,000 companies a year have filed Chapter 11 petitions, more than 99 percent of them small, privately held concerns.