<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Certiorari, often abbreviated cert. in the United States, is a writ seeking judicial review . A certiorari is issued by a superior court, directing an inferior court, tribunal, or other public authority to send the record of a proceeding for review . </P> <P> The term comes from the words used at the beginning of these writs when they were written in Latin: certiorārī (volumus) "(we wish) to be informed". Certiorari is the present passive infinitive of the Latin verb certioro, certiorare ("to inform, apprise, show"). </P>

What is a petition for a writ of certiorari