cert
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“There’s a kind of art to getting the Supreme Court to pay attention to a cert petition,” said Tommy Bennett, a law professor at Southern Methodist University who tracks the petitions process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Passed the check ride a couple months ago and got my cert in the mail! Did the test in a citation 525 series so I’m now rated for the CJ jets too. Fun times.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
"To my mind it looks like a dead cert," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024
The justices say, “Any time we grant cert, we’re going to decide the case in the ordinary course, which means all the questions within it.”
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2024
"They'll stop to hunt all about the place where they lose our trail, and then they'll follow up the pony for a dead cert."
From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe
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